Hi all,
As mentioned in a previous thread, I'm trying to get a client to migrate their product to Linux using Wine. So far, the results have been so so, with mightily strange results (sockets in "Established" state with no controlling process, zomby processes who's parent is init that are not being cleared, etc.). After some looking around, we tried running Wine with "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1", and the problems magically disappeared.
Maybe because of the time that passed since these problems were common, I clean forgot about this option. I noticed that wine-pthread was running instead of wine-kthread, but I did not think of it as a problem beyond a theoretical performance problem. It seems, however, that guessing wrong had pretty dire side effects.
So, the question <---------------
Will running wine-kthread directly work? Or is there something crucial done by the "wine" executable?
Second problem is probably independant. I figured that going through the process of getting the program compiled as winelib was unnecessary, so I am still compiling it on Windows using Visual Studio. This, naturally, means that it's a PE. After resolving the font problems, I can finally get the program running through winedbg. While I'm doing ok at working like that, the client really prefers working with a GUI. When I try to run the program using the --gdb switch (with or without --no-start), debug symbols for the PE part are not shown. I get all the symbols for the ELF dlls (wine's DLLs), but not for the PE program.
Is this a solveable problem? The program is using PDBs for debug symbols, they are not compiled into the PEs. I can change that, I guess, but I would really rather not. Will changing that solve anything?
Shachar
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