WineConf agenda

[Alex Henrie]

2017-10-23 8:18 GMT+02:00 Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com>:
> 2017-10-13 5:23 GMT-06:00 Jacek Caban <jacek at codeweavers.com>:
>> It's getting close to WineConf and I think it's time to think about agenda.
>> Does anyone have anything he'd like to talk about? Any ideas about
>> conversations we should have? Feel free to add them to
>> https://wiki.winehq.org/WineConf2017
>
> It would be nice to talk about the fake DLL problem. In case you're
> not familiar, numerous popular applications (Chrome, Steam, StarCraft,
> Overwatch...) manually load system DLLs into memory, do some
> verification checks, and then attempt to jump into the DLL's code.
> This causes a crash because Wine's DLLs are fakes that don't contain
> the actual function code. Wine Staging has a solution to the problem
> involving making the fake DLLs more realistic and then catching and
> redirecting attempts to execute memory-mapped code. I'm curious to
> know what it would take to get the Wine Staging solution or another
> reasonable solution into mainline Wine.

There are at least two open bugs about the fake DLL problem:

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39403
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42741

And at least two more that are related:

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40479
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37585

-Alex