Dear Wine-experts,
I've tested the functionality of simple CUI-applications with
wineconsole (Wine-0.9.50, Ubuntu 7.10). Somewhat surprisingly,
there seems to be numerous major flaws in the current
implementation.
The best (worst?) example is the widely distributed sample code
("Console: Demonstration of the Console Functions") available in
the MSDN library (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa263818.aspx).
With this code it is easy to replicate the "missing output" bug
(http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404) and demonstrate several
other previously unreported bugs and crashes. In fact, these problems
seem to prevent the sound running of virtually all CUI-applications
utilizing console functions.
Should there be one big bug report for this sample console application
or a separate report for each defect?
I also wonder if someone else could test whether these potential
problems are real, and confirm that no simple solutions are available..
The actual sources are available in the full PSDK sample package
downloadable from:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vstudio60pro/Utility/6.0/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/vs6samples.exe.
As that is a quite large file (131Mb), the example of interest extracted
from the package is temporarily available at
http://www.helsinki.fi/~sund/sdk_WinUI_console.exe,
or in a zipped form at http://www.helsinki.fi/~sund/console_vs6.zip.
An older (vs97) version of the same SDK sample that includes a compiled
binary can be found at http://www.helsinki.fi/~sund/console_vs97.zip.
The sample code compiles easily with Winelib after the standard --cuiexe
transformations with Winemaker.
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