[PATCH] mfc42: add static library

[Andrew Eikum]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 06:14:43AM +0000, Jefferson Carpenter wrote:
> As surprising as it is, merely having a DLL by the name of mfc42
> present, Rise of Legends is able to generate a PID after entering the
> CD key.
> 

I don't have any opinions on this patch, but Age of Empires 3 does the
same thing. It loads mfc42, quits if it fails to load, and otherwise
does nothing with it if it succeeds. It also complains about pidgen,
so I guess it's some common anti-copy software.

Andrew

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 2:31 AM Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 03:05 Jefferson Carpenter <jeffersoncarpenter2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> winetricks -q, rather.  I'm not married to adding mfc42 if there's a
> >> workaround that can be used instead.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I should have checked bugzilla first!
> >>
> >> On 4/14/2019 8:01 AM, Jefferson Carpenter wrote:
> >> > Didn't check this first https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657
> >> >
> >> > However, the patch allows PidGen.dll referred to in the above bug to do
> >> > its dirty work, which should remove a blockage from some games.
> >> >
> >> > The 'winetricks -w mfc42' workaround should still work even if Wine
> >> > begins to implement mfc42.
> >> >
> >> > On 4/14/2019 6:08 AM, Austin English wrote:
> >> >> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 01:05 Jefferson Carpenter <
> >> >> jeffersoncarpenter2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> What does this accomplish? I.e. how does it improve things over the
> >> >> current
> >> >> situation?
> >
> >
> >
> > Just because there's a workaround doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed.
> >
> > The problem though is that it's completely undocumented. I don't think adding a stub with no exports that is unlikely to be implemented improves things over the status quo.
> 
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