[try2] gdiplus/tests: Dynamically load gdiplus.dll.

[Austin English]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
>> 2009/2/23 Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com>:
>>> Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
>>>> 2009/2/23 Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>:
>>>>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This avoid a messagebox in regression tests on systems that don't have
>>>>>> GdiPlus.
>>>>> This seems wrong because winetest.exe is already supposed to check for
>>>>> missing dlls. If I remember correctly this was done explicitely so that
>>>>> individual tests would not have to dynamically link everywhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I tested on a platform that does not have gdiplus, and I did not
>>>>> get a message box. In fact, on that platform, winetest did not extract
>>>>> gdiplus_test.exe, which also seems very wrong to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I think that if there's any issue, it's on the winetest.exe side.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
>>>>>            "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
>>>>>          "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> On my w2k pro when I launch the winetest obtained from
>>>> test.winehq.org, I get a MessageBox saying gdiplus is missing, and
>>>> there's already some tests that load dlls dynamically (advpack,
>>>> cryptui, fusion) so thought it was the right way.
>>>>
>>>> I will have a look on the winetest side.
>>>>
>>>> Nicolas Le Cam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The reason you see this is because next to a normal LoadLibrary we also use the
>>> .NET variant. On some boxes gdiplus.dll cannot be found through LoadLibrary but
>>> will trough LoadLibraryShim. As winetest now thinks the library is there it will
>>> try to launch "gdiplus_test.exe --list" and that of course fails.
>>>
>>> Not sure how to approach this.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This shouldn't be the case on my box as gdiplus is not present by
>> default on W2K, and should be manually installed (not available
>> through windows update), or installed by a third party app.
>> My test box is a clean install without any third apps, except
>> PDFCreator to simulate a printer to test this part of the suite. I
>> will check if it has gdiplus bundled in.
>>
>> Nicolas Le Cam
>>
> Is .NET installed (any version)?
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
>
>

FWIW, the W2K box I have at work has this same problem. There are
several applications installed, including .Net 1.1 and .Net 2.0
Service Pack 1.

-- 
-Austin