version<unspecified>

[Paul Vriens]

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:15:06 +0200, Paul Vriens <Paul.Vriens at xs4all.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 19:53 +0200, wino at piments.com wrote:
>>> I have an app that tests the version number of certain dlls it uses on
>>> startup.
>>>
>>> The first seems to be riched20.dll
>>>
>>> If I run it on 20050524 it starts and works.
>>>
>>> If I run from the same installation after installing wine-0.9 (or just
>>> about any winecfg based version) it starts throwing errors like:
>>>
>>> riched20.dll version<unspecified> was found, this program requires at
>>> least.....
>>>
>>>
>>> I then have to pull in a native dll and tell wine to go native when in
>>> fact the buildin functions  work perfectly.
>>>
>>> bug or feature?
>>>
>>> I guess this was done intentionally or is a result of an intentional
>>> change and seems related to winecfg becoming active.
>>>
>>> What is the best way to deal with this? It seems a shame to install
>>> native
>>> dlls when the wine code does the job.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> don't have time (yet) to do stuff in Wine, but have a look at
>> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2005-September/020423.html
>>
>> this shows you how to add version stuff to a dll.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> I was not really wanting to get into recoding the wine dlls, I'm not sure
> I'm upto it and I would not have the inside knowlege to know what version
> would best represent each dll.
>
> I have an app. which is working pretty well under 20050524 but if I run
> one of the winecfg releases the app. throws this version <unspecified>
> bit.
>
> I would like to know what change brought this about.
>
> Is the text "unspecified" actually returned by wine now or is this the
> app's interpretation.
>
> There seems to be a definate regression here.
>
> Do you have any more detail on this?
>
> TIA
>
Hi,

could you send me a +ver,+loaddll,+module trace of both versions. I will
have a look (if time permits). I hope I can see enough from the logs as
I'm a but reluctant to go back to (or install somewhere else) the 20050524
version.

Cheers,

Paul.