...ly and report regressions as soon as possible to the Wine developers. This way regressions are caught early. That means the set of changes to search throu
...er AppDB entries on their own. Don't worry though because there is an easy way to keep track of new bugs. Bugzilla offers news feeds for bug reports. To t
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...rovement for applications which use specific API functions in an excessive way. This feature can be enabled through <code>STAGING_SHARED_MEMORY</code> and
...es not idle often enough and most games therefore may even run slower this way. We recommend changing the priority only for the wineserver since this give
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To confirm this (in a quick and dirty way), the following test program has been compiled and executed on Windows:
...the problem at all - i.e. start small with a hack and then code the proper way being sure of the problem).
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...on the Wine developers [http://winehq.org/forums email list] can go a long way.
If you have found a way to make an application work that is more complicated than simply installing
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There is another way to create the "Dn" operation - 0x0006:
...can be represented in more than one way, although MSDN only documents one way.
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.... This protocol is supported by several Windows applications, and the only way to make it accessible to them is to setup the HID stack in pass-through mod
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...y. The resources below should give you an idea of how to start making your way through both the source code and the development protocols that have evolve
Sometimes the best way to get some help is to talk with other developers. While other contributors
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The easiest way to publish your branches is to publish them on a web server. GIT needs to
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...ehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wineconf wineconf mailing list]. This is the best way to keep apprised of the latest news about the conference. This is also the
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The easiest
way to control the builder is through the webinterface available at https://dev
...ne-staging.com
[email protected]]. For security reasons, there is no
way to read or change the secret through the web interface.
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...omplete, but every little bit helps. Writing a test is also often the best way to check that a bug is real (and not simply a symptom of a problem elsewher
..., writing conformance tests doesn't require using or targeting Wine in any way and can be done entirely on Windows.
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...winetricks installs each app into its own Wine prefix, and offers an easy way to remove wineprefixes and the menu items they created.
...Wine prefix. This is for several reasons, but mainly because the preferred way to uninstall anything in Wine is to simply install into a fresh Wine prefix
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The easiest way to verify that everything is set up correctly is to use the linux version o
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One quick way to see simpler differences between the vanilla 32-bit and WoW64 builds is t
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...his necessarily needs to be extensions to the shader runner; we can find a way to write C tests for these.
* We would also like a way to invoke shader runner logic from C. It's a bit unfortunate that the tests
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...topearson.com/en/transportation/up-express UP Express] for $12.35 CAD each way. Alternatively you can use Uber or Lyft for about $45 CAD or a taxi for abo
The easiest way to get there is from Union station, take the Yonge subway line north to Col
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...ehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wineconf wineconf mailing list]. This is the best way to keep apprised of the latest news about the conference. This is also the
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...to make changes to your vimrc file. This file can be used to customize the way Vim behaves. On UNIX (or Linux) systems this file can be found in '''`$HOME
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* Wine doesn't run a program the same way as Windows does (e.g. crashes) with the default Wine configuration (i.e. no
* You haven't modified Wine in any way; i.e. you are using a prepackaged binary without any custom patches or modi
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...winetricks installs each app into its own Wine prefix, and offers an easy way to remove wineprefixes and the menu items they created.
...Wine prefix. This is for several reasons, but mainly because the preferred way to uninstall anything in Wine is to simply install into a fresh Wine prefix
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Perhaps the main (but not only) way this matters to Wine is in regards to building and porting. Once all of Win
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The easiest way to work around any DirectPlay issue is to install the native version<br />
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* It could be emulated in an inefficient way.
...Win32 events when a fence reaches a certain value. In Vulkan, there is no way to signal native synchronization objects (e.g. HANDLEs to Win32 events or f
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...You can explore the project's main source tree and commit history (all the way back to the first version in 1993) at the [https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/w
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...d, even small ones, often cause applications to crash or misbehave in some way.
...dertaking. Fortunately it can prove very useful to the development of Wine way before it is complete.
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...d a bunch of other problems described in [[Winelib User's Guide]]. A good way to fix these is to try to compile applications for which we have the source
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Enable validation layers in a standard way:
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...directly fund the developers working on Wine. So CrossOver is both a great way to get support in using Wine and to support the Wine Project.
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...ed/ contribute those improvements upstream] though, they should work their way to us when we update. Improvements to any templates or code we overlay ours
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== Managing your changes - the simple way ==
=== Editing commits the hard way ===
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...changes and think about whether there is a more concise or straightforward way to do what you want.
...ss. A reviewer points out an error in your patch which you missed, or some way in which the code style differs from the norm in Wine. In this case all you
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...that focus on targeting multiple platforms and mixing Java with C/C++ (by way of JNI) that don't seem to be discussed by any other tutorials out there. P
...phics benchmarks, it seems most of this program can be set aside, though a way to collate and report results might be good to work on.
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If you find that your application still fails in the same way using the latest version of Wine (which may need to be built from source) t
...a number of reasons why a bug report may be marked as invalid. The easiest way to avoid this is to read [["Bugs"]] carefully.
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In this tab you can override the default way Wine loads DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries). Sometimes Wine ships with a DLL,
...pply when it is loaded from any directory (instead of just system32). That way, you can force a builtin DLL to be used even if an application ships its ow
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...are not a maintainer, you can't create new official How-to's. So the best way to proceed is to post your How-to as a comment in the specific version pag
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...ackage with minor modifications (e.g., adding custom patches), the easiest way to do that is by branching the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Emu
Installing the distro wine or wine-staging package is the easiest way to install the libraries Wine depends on, as zypper or Yast2 will automatic
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...For example, the Mac driver uses some Objective-C, because it is the only way to interface with the Mac platform.
...t want your application to run on Intel-compatible PCs, the most practical way is to simply ship your Windows .exe along with an isolated copy of Wine.
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:A (reasonably) quick way to get most tables into shape:
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...xception, and it almost always means something went wrong in an unintended way. Many other exceptions are generated as part of the language, but a page fa
...ers; try to find the earliest one. A message box might be an application's way of handling a chain of exceptions. The first instance of c0000005 in a log
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...overrides you will get this immediate benefit. I have also added another way to setup an override. You can setup registry keys in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\So
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...uced by losing one; there could be an error during rebasing, or an obscure way in which a change upstream breaks a Staging patch. Alternatively, there cou
...of bisects and testing to perform—and it is, but it really is the easiest way for a problem to be fixed. It may be easiest for the user to simply pull a
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...nes. Since we are re-implementing the API too, it would probably be a good way for interested developers to learn more about Wine code.
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...e strings it finds, generates additional translated binary resources. This way Wine ends up with resources for each language and then uses the most approp
...build Wine from source, so you can test the translations. The recommended way to get the latest Wine source is to use Git. (See [[Git Wine Tutorial]] for
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...interact with the community and your mentor in a positive and constructive way you don't have to worry about not meeting all your goals.
...n part of your project - but we want to see that you are able to find your way around the source tree.
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...lator”. Sometimes it is also known to be used for “Windows Emulator”. In a way, both meanings are correct, only seen from different perspectives. The firs
The windows architecture (Win 9x way) looks like this:
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To this end, a semi formalized way of producing documentation from the Wine source code has evolved. Since the
If you document you COM interfaces this way then all following extra comments that follow in the same source file that
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The best way is generally to use names like `foo`, `bar` or `baz`, or even better a
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all necessary dependencies installed. The easiest way to find the appropriate
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..., and it will contain a list of the names passed as arguments. Usually the way this file is updated is that each time '''widl''' is run, it reads any exis
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==== Will there be a PowerPC version (or will there be a way to run Wine on a PowerPC processor)? ====
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* renderdoc can provide timing information in a platform independent way
CSMT has been initially developed as a way to enhance wined3d performance, with the "theory" being that by splitting t
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The best way to make Staging better is to make upstream Wine better. This helps both pro
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{{Warning}} The Clang compiler has come a long way; it can build the 32-bit version of Wine without problems and could be cons
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...the "Tools for Visual Studio" dropdown field. You can also scroll all the way to the bottom, set the page to English with a menu on the left side, and op
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...the appropriate folders in the user's environment. The idea was that this way, deleting the prefix would remove the actual files, and under the freedeskt
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...y build-and-test systems, aka "continuous integration" (CI), are one great way to find test-suites. One can typically follow links to the project's actual
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The normal way to create a Windows 11 VM would be to set it up with [https://getlabsdone.c
...from loading the passthrough GPU drivers. But you may need to find another way if your host needs them for its own display.
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...braries. If you have a unix with package management, probably the quickest way to find ''most'' of the software you need is to use whatever "build depende
After using package management, the surest way to figure out exactly what dependencies you still need is to start the buil
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The way this is done is weird. It looks like it's supposed to be for WSAAccept, but
...anything but LLONG_MAX it returns STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER. This may be a way of explicitly marking infinite timeout (in my implementation I assume that
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...interact with the community and your mentor in a positive and constructive way you don't have to worry about not meeting all your goals.
...n part of your project - but we want to see that you are able to find your way around the source tree.
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...ory. Also resource statements with file references are located in the same way.
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The best way to take care of all these issues is to use '''winemaker'''.
...ich specifies a Unix library to link with. The other options work the same way they would with a C compiler. All are applied to all the targets found. Whe
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...ore these. These frames don't tell us anything. Another peculiarity is the way the backtraces end:
These final 3 frames are the result of the way Wine and the Wine debugger works. In order to read where a thread is, it mu
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...uild Wine with as many build-time dependencies satisfied as possible. That way your users have a full range of features when running Wine (depending on yo
...make sure you have 32-bit libraries for WoW64 support. Normally, the best way to do this is to split Wine into at least 2 distinct packages:
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...false representation of the capabilities of Wine and is not helpful in any way. This is a common complaint from Wine users. If an application is marked as
...ich is why "Steam" is often accepted. "Latest" should only be used in this way and should never be used for software where multiple version are available.
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DLL or PE format image file. When used in this way winedump functions
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...[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhol_worm virulent worm] appears. The only way to decrease its impact is to diversify the OS population. This issue is now
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With its i386 release, CentOS has cleared a major hurdle on the way to an EPEL with 32-bit libraries, and now the ball is in the Fedora project
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Another way to conditionally log debug output (e.g. in case of very large installers wh
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...an new one for a particular task? This is called a regression. The fastest way to find the cause of the regression is to do [[Regression Testing|regressio
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run-tests.exe can be used in the same way on native Linux Mono, or .NET on Windows. It can also be used with the nati
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...An external git tree, frequently synced with main Wine, would be the best way to start. If this is a project you think you might undertake, please contac
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...ls the mangled symbol, generates yet another thunk and setups symbols in a way that allows linker to do the right thing at link time, when more informatio
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One way of getting them is downloading the [https://vulkan.lunarg.com Vulkan SDK].
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...''. The Unix device corresponding to a DOS drive can be specified the same way, except with '::' instead of ':'. So for the previous example, if the CDROM
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...and set the value of a global variable directly: this is a more efficient way of passing information to the main Wine program than flattening the data st
Each of these changes alter the address space in a way incompatible with Windows. Prelink and exec-shield mean that the libraries
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...umber of programs that are derived from the standard Wine codebase in some way or another. Some of these are commercial products from companies that activ
...however we will cover it in depth and attempt to hold your hand along the way.
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...layer compatibility layer] - it runs Windows applications in much the same way Windows does. There is no inherent loss of speed due to "emulation" when us
...to run the same applications by translating system calls in much the same way. Setting Wine to mimic Windows XP is not much different from setting Vista
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...of its applications (Corel !WordPerfect 8) to Linux. This provided a fast way to get these applications to Linux, but meant that porting had to be repeat
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...why, you can use an +all trace. If your program seems to be failing a long way from an API call, you might also try [Disassembly disassembling] it to see
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...Wine#Runtime_Dependencies]] section of the Building Wine page, the easiest way to achieve this is to install the wine package provided by the distribution
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...essed elsewhere, "cut-and-paste" coding can be a kludgy but very effective way to prototype. The goal should always be to minimize duplication in your pat
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...leadership for the project. All improvements to Wine eventually work their way into CrossOver.
...tch and see if it fixes the problem. If the patch works and then makes its way into our main development tree, the bug report will be closed, your help wi
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Of course, in the RPC server process at the other end, you need some way to unmarshal the RPCs, so you have functions also generated by MIDL which a
...achine, the DCOM runtime on that machine activates the object in the usual way (by looking it up in the registry etc) and then marshalls the requested int
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...people the ability to both implement and add to the Wine project in such a way it doesn't hinder others from doing the same. At the same time they want to
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...()</tt> etc. without worrying about 64k boundaries. Note: there's no easy way to convert back from a linear to a segmented address.
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...line will get you to the hotel in about 45 minutes, a ticket ("normal" one way for 3 PLN) can be bought at the bus stop with credit card. Exit the bus at
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The <tt>msacm32</tt> DLL provides a way to map a given wave format to another format. It also provides filtering ca
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...— all windows are tied to the thread in which they are created, due to the way that messages are implemented.
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...based patches applied on top of upstream, it can't be bisected in the same way as upstream wine. For instructions on bisecting between wine-staging versio
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the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
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To be more precise on the
way Wine (and Windows) generates exception events, when a fault occurs (segment
<p>This
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