[Wine] Re: Found the patch that breaks my app. Now what?

roboknight roboknight at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 00:47:25 CDT 2007


Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> roboknight <roboknight at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay, so I spent a lot of time locating the patch that prevents me from
> > moving my application, GSAK, from 0.9.16 to the latest version of wine.
> >  I spent a lot of time recompiling different bisected versions of wine
> > in order to do just that.  I even submitted a bugzilla report.  As it
> > turns out, it was the patch I suspected when I first started.  It seems
> > that the dependency on the Mozilla Active X control was removed about
> > 06/30/06 ... That's when my application wouldn't run with wine any
> > longer.  It seems that patch causes some message to get passed to
> > shdocvw which isn't handled.  Because it isn't handled, an exception
> > occurs later that crashes the application.
>
> > So the question is this:  I know what causes the problem.  I do not
> > believe the solution is to "add the functionality back"... while I
> > could do that, it must have been taken out for a reason.  So the
> > question is this:  What now?  Does anyone have a workaround?  I could
> > wait until wine gets enough new infrastructure that these messages are
> > handled, but that seems a long way off as it has to do with the
> > PropertyPage interface, which doesn't really appear to be there.  There
> > is some work there regarding property pages, but not enough to allow my
> > app to work.
>
> > Is there a way to get the funcitonality that was removed by removing
> > the dependency on the Mozilla Active X control without "un-patching"
> > that from the latest version?
>
> > Running: Fedora Core 5, GSAK 6.6.3 (a delphi 5 app),  breaking wine
> > versions > 0.6.16, bugzilla 6151 for additional info (debug log and so
> > forth).
>
> Please enter a bug in the bug database. Otherwise your message may slip, as
> many developpers are out to wine-conf this weekend.
>
> Bye
> --
> Uwe Bonnes                bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
>
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Yeah, I did that early on. check here
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6151 ...



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