Re: make builtin dlls visible for applications?

Hans Leidekker wrote: On Friday 18 November 2005 02:05, Juan Lang wrote: Someone proposed a hack where the loader would know that these DLLs are dummies based on a wine-specific flag in the header. Why a dummy? Why not ship a full PE DLL with a flag saying it's a built-in? That way file

Steam regression in CVS

Hi, Yesterday I found a regression in Steam in current CVS. It fails to start, giving the error message: ERROR: Failed to get local IP address of SocketToServer. Steam dies a few seconds after this. I tracked down the cause to a recent Winsock patch:

Re: What would most aid WINE development?

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:30 +0100, Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the time, the code itself is the best documentation, and it'd take a government with steel balls to force Microsoft to open source Windows. That'd almost guarantee its bankruptcy. I thought the current crew

Re: Steam regression in CVS

Patch has been submitted http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2005-November/05.html Thanks, vijay On 11/19/05, James Liggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yesterday I found a regression in Steam in current CVS. It fails to start, giving the error message: ERROR: Failed to get local

re: What would most aid WINE development?

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:19 -0800, Daniel Kegel wrote: Here are a few things a judge could order Microsoft to do that would help Wine: * order them to break up into two companies, one for operating systems and .net, one for everything else * donate gobs of cash to Wine * offer a perpetual,

Re: Steam regression in CVS

I can confirm this. I see the same error since the patch. -Jesse James Liggett wrote: Hi, Yesterday I found a regression in Steam in current CVS. It fails to start, giving the error message: ERROR: Failed to get local IP address of SocketToServer. Steam dies a few seconds after this. I

Re: Steam regression in CVS

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:39:23AM -0600, Evil wrote: I can confirm this. I see the same error since the patch. I have sent in a fix already but it was not applied yet. Here it is for your viewing pleasure Ciao, Marcus Index: dlls/winsock/socket.c

Re: What would most aid WINE development?

Folks, here is another question: The following excerpt is from the Microsoft antitrust trial's finding of facts. Some of what has been said in this thread hints at the extreme position this finding takes. That said, I can't believe that members of this community believe the task is impossible,

Re: What would most aid WINE development?

Jeremy, I am sorry if my remarks troubled you. Perhaps my meaning didn't come across as intended? I didn't mean to imply that WINE is not currently useful or has an impossible task. I believe just the opposite - that WINE is useful and it can, one day, achieve 100% Windows compatibility.

Should the AppDB make public the number of unique page views each app gets?

This was an idea we discussed in IRC for a short bit, and I think it would be good to bring it up here. Essentially, if the AppDB displayed the number of page views each app got it would go a long way towards estimating the demand for particular applications, whether they work or not. It seems

Re: What would most aid WINE development?

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:54:39 +0100, Susheel Daswani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy, I am sorry if my remarks troubled you. Perhaps my meaning didn't come across as intended? I didn't mean to imply that WINE is not currently useful or has an impossible task. I believe just the opposite -

Re: Steam regression in CVS

I applied last night to my tree. It fixes the problem. Thanks. James On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 15:52 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:39:23AM -0600, Evil wrote: I can confirm this. I see the same error since the patch. I have sent in a fix already but it was not

Re: What would most aid WINE development?

Susheel Daswani wrote: My belief (which opposes the 'fact' stated above) is that if there was virtually complete documentation of what exists, and full disclosure of additions and modifications, a cloning could be achieved. Of course it would take a huge capital and time investment, but the

Re: What would most aid WINE development?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only real barrier that remains is for sufficient number of businesses and administrations to adopt a strategy where it is no longer acceptable to publish and transmit documents in a format that forces the recipient to have the lastest version of M$ office to

problem compiling value.c in /home/storri/src/wine/dlls/wldap32

I am using CVS version of wine that I synced with just tonight. I did the following commands: make clean cvs up ./configure make depend make When it came to compiling value.c in /home/storri/src/wine/dlls/wldap32 I get an error that: gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -D__WINESRC__

Re: Should the AppDB make public the number of unique page views each app gets?

Scott Ritchie wrote: This was an idea we discussed in IRC for a short bit, and I think it would be good to bring it up here. Essentially, if the AppDB displayed the number of page views each app got it would go a long way towards estimating the demand for particular applications, whether they

MBR was destroyed

I've just submitted a bug (3889) about destroyed MBR and Dustin Navea asked me to subscribe to this list. Here comes some detailed description: As a regular user I've launched winecfg as a regular user, then proceeded to the dist setup. I've tried several options like automatic configuration,