Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to get GTA: San Andreas,
and Battlefield 2 running on Linux, so far
without success.
I suspect they are running into the same bug,
because they produce very similar output (ole fixmes).
Both games will freeze at some point during the install.
Strangely, I don't see any errors, but I have provided
an ole trace for each. Do you have any suggestions as to
what the problem might be, or how to track it down?
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3108
Thanks for reporting this. In order for the logs of these types of
programs to make sense, you really need to give me one with
+ole,+olerelay,+seh,+tid options. I suspect it is the following bug though:
In newer InstallShields, there is a marshaled object that contains a
function with a VT_PTR -> VT_USERDEFINED( TKIND_ENUM ). This should be
treated as "int *", but is actually treated as "int". This is due to
some broken logic in the typelib marshaler that is designed to fix the
problem with VT_PTR -> VT_USERDEFINED( TKIND_INTERFACE ) -> "IUnknown
*", but where we should dereference the pointer any more.
We probably need to use the logic in ITypeInfo::Invoke to appropriately
transform the soup of pointers and userdefined types into something we
can use. I should also need to check what things are accepted in the
native version. i.e. is VT_PTR -> VT_PTR -> VT_USERDEFINED( TKIND_ENUM )
supported? If so, that isn't representable by the VARIANT vt's, so we
would need to treat it differently than the ITypeInfo::Invoke case.
This is a high priority for me as this one bug prevents a number of
installers from working correctly. However, I'm in the middle of some
other work at the moment, so I don't know when I'll get around to it.
--
Rob Shearman
