wine users - Mar 2012 - Trace for DLLs needed for applications

For those, who have dual boot system (Win/Lin):

Found one interesting program (for Windows) called xptruss
(http://dev.depeuter.org/xptruss.php)
Checked for viruses and malware: Here is the report
(http://r.virscan.org/report/27a526b97f0109ca8103f83cbc78b3a2.html)

The program could trace Win API calls and save debugging info into (large) text
file. For me I found one useful thing that utility can: determine which dynamic
libraries your Windows application uses.

You can place those files from arhive to the folder, where app is and run from
command shell: xptruss appname
After program closing you'll find few of text files with the names of all
DLLs, used by app.

Useful if you want to know, which of them else you may need in Wine for the app
to work.

Unfortunalely I don't know how to turn off debugging function yet )), cause
it consuming much of disk space with out.txt -file (main debugging file).
Except if to start app for only short time.

Sure, you must not to replace Wine libs with their native libraries such as:
kernel32.dll, user32.dll, gdi32.dll and ntdll.dll

Or better if you place all needed dlls in app folder first, and not in Wine
prefix (system32), for testing.

I dunno, maybe there is another simple way to trace DLLs. Need your advice then.
:)

Alex_G wrote:
> 
> I dunno, maybe there is another simple way to trace DLLs. 
I just run the app with WINEDEBUG=+loaddll. There's also a Windows app
called Dependency Walker that has been mentioned here in the past (never tried
it myself).

Yep, I use that WINEDEBUG=+loaddll too.

Just had idea for sake of insterest to compare which calls goes through Wine and
in Windows itself, with  "WINEDEBUG=+relay" got output file, tonns of
wined3d calls... ))

I forget that Process Monitor (by "Sysinternals"), can list all those
DLLs just in its window, using filter "Process and thread acivity",
seems this is more simple way. )

Ok then, so xptruss must be useful for those who interesting with DLL calls
debugging info (in native system).  :)

Launching under Wine:

Code:
wine xptruss.exe appname.exe 



works only for txt-files creation (dll-listing), but program
interrupts/terminates before appearing on the screen )
seems not allowed to launch that way...  :)