On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:59 PM, John Emmas <john...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 15 Jun 2012, at 10:41, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
>
>> Hello John!
>>
>> On 06/15/2012 06:22 AM, John Emmas wrote:
>>> Firstly, I'm not a Linux user.  I'm a Windows programmer but I have a
>>> passing knowledge of Linux (and several friends who are Linux
>>> programmers).  I write a Windows application which gets launched as a
>>> child process by a popular Linux DAW.  My program was first written many
>>> years ago when the (then) current version of Wine was about v0.9.58.
>>> Over a hundred people are using my program with old versions of Wine and
>>> I've had no complaints so far.
>>>
>>> Recently however, two customers tried to use it with Wine v1.5.35.  In
>>> both cases the program crashed - apparently because some particular
>>> function wasn't found in MSVCP60.dll (at the moment, we don't know which
>>> function).  Both customers went to a web site called WineTricks from
>> That is fairly trivial to figure out. Start your app with Wine on the
>> command line and it will crash with an exception:
>>  Call from <address> to unimplemented function MSVCP60.<function>
>>
>> Once you have those please open a bug on http://bugs.winehq.org/ for
>> them.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Michael,
>
> I'm still trying to track this down with my 2 customers but one of them told 
> me something very interesting this afternoon.  It seems that the more recent 
> versions of Wine have 2 distinct modes:-  a 'native' mode (which he thinks 
> uses genuine Microsoft DLLs) and some other mode which uses what he called 
> 'fake' DLLs.  The native mode seems to be working.  It's the other mode that 
> crashes.  I need to check if that's the same with the second customer but in 
> the meantime, can anyone confirm if these two modes do co-exist these days?  
> It's very different from my older Wine which used only Microsoft DLLs AFAIK.  
> I should have some better info next week.
>
> John
>

You can set this for each dll (in winecfg for example), it's not a
some kind of mode.
Have a look at the wiki for winecfg [1].

- Matijn

[1] http://wiki.winehq.org/winecfg


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