When ~/.wine does not exist, or more specifically the system.reg does
not yet exist, wineprefixcreate delivers the message "Failed to open the
service control manager." I have tracked this down to the fact that
HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Services does not yet exist when the msiexec.exe
is registered and hence OpenSCManager fails.
What is the proper way to register this key. In DoRegServer I have
prepended the following code
VVVVVVVV
WCHAR const key[35] = {
'S', 'y', 's', 't', 'e', 'm',
'\\', 'C', 'u', 'r', 'r', 'e', 'n', 't', 'C', 'o', 'n', 't',
'r', 'o', '
l', 'S', 'e', 't',
'\\', 'S', 'e', 'r', 'v', 'i', 'c', 'e', 's', '\\', 0
};
HKEY hkey;
status = RegCreateKeyExW(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, key,
0, NULL, 0, KEY_READ | KEY_WRITE,
NULL, &hkey, NULL);
if (status == ERROR_SUCCESS) {
RegCloseKey(hkey);
}
^^^^^^^^
However, this seems kludgey and intuitively does not seem the proper way
to do things. Putting it in the wine.inf won't work, because installing
services (SPINST_REGSVR) comes before installing registry keys
(SPINST_REGISTRY).
I have also commented out the msiexec.exe from the RegisterDllsSection,
and added wine msiexec.exe /RegServer after the
setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection, and this works, but this also seems
like a kludge.
What is the proper way to guarantee the key exists before encountering
the msiexec.exe installation?
I'm using wine-0.9.31, non-packaged, on slackware 11.0.
Regards,
Jeremy
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