Windows 2000 VM timing out

[Francois Gouget]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Hugh McMaster wrote:

> 
> The Windows 2000 VM is timing out with the following dialog message:
> 
> kernel32_test.exe - Entry Point Not Found
> The procedure entry point InitializeSListHead could not be located in the dynamic link library kernel32.dll.
> 
> For a screenshot, see https://testbot.winehq.org/JobDetails.pl?Key=22547&log_201=1&scrshot_201=1#k201
> 
> I'm not sure what the cause is. I sent a patch modifying a comment by one character and the same error occurs.

It's exactly as the message says: kernel32_test.exe imports 
InitializeSListHead(). That's not an issue on Windows XP and greater 
because they have a kernel32.dll that exports that function. But Windows 
2000 does not have this function and so Windows fails to resolve the 
executable's imports (which happens before starting the executable), and 
pops up a dialog to inform the user. Since there is no one to dismiss 
the dialog nothing happens until the alloted 2 minutes run out and the 
test is marked as "timed out".

The solution would be to replace this direct function call with a 
function pointer which you would initialize using GetModuleHandleA() and 
GetProcAddress(). See dlls/kernel32/tests/sync.c for instance.


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