wine users - Jul 2003 - wine for reverse engineering

Forgive me if this has an obvious answer, but I'm fairly new to Wine:

I've got a graphics card with a Windows-only driver.  I know that Wine, 
living in userspace as it does, doesn't have access to the underlying 
hardware, but would it be at all possible to use Wine as a debugger?  That 
is, to look at the data the driver's trying to send to the hardware, even if
it can't make it there?


Thanks,
Julian

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Hi Julian,

I'm afraid the reason that Wine cannot run the driver is not only Wine's
inability to directly access the kernel. Drivers in Windows use a 
different set of APIs to run. As such, trying to run the driver under 
Wine will not work, as Wine doesn't even have the proper runtime linking 
and libraries needed to load the driver.

I'm not sure about an "strace" like tool for Windows drivers, but
the
only debugger I know that works on drivers is called "SoftIce", and is
a
commercial proprietary software.

          Shachar

Julian Graham wrote:
> Forgive me if this has an obvious answer, but I'm fairly new to Wine:
>
> I've got a graphics card with a Windows-only driver.  I know that 
> Wine, living in userspace as it does, doesn't have access to the 
> underlying hardware, but would it be at all possible to use Wine as a 
> debugger?  That is, to look at the data the driver's trying to send to 
> the hardware, even if it can't make it there?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Julian
>

-- 
Shachar Shemesh
Open Source integration consultant
Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/

All,

I am trying to run IE and Outlook under wine. They both error on an 
inimplemented function 101 on a shdocvw.dll.

Will the windows version of this dll work??

Do IE and/or Outlook now work under wine??

Thanks,
Dan