wine users - Nov 2008 - Question about submitted a bug using native DLLs

Hello,

I'm trying to play a game (Star Wars: Rebellion) and it mostly works except
for the tactical battle mode.  There have been workarounds suggested on the
appdb page
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=181&iTestingId=33818),
which include getting a native d3drm.dll, which I did.  This and one other
native DLL (d3dxof.dll) reduced the number of errors and also prolonged the time
to crash, but there are still other errors causing the game to crash in this
mode.

The original problem with d3drm.dll is in Bug 8232
(http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8232), but it doesn't look like
it's going to get fixed any time soon.  So I want to submit a bug for the
further errors, but the docs say not to submit bugs using native DLL overrides. 
But in this case, it seems like additional bugs would still be there even if the
d3drm.dll bug was fixed?  Obviously this isn't a 100% statement, but I can
tell from the debug output that the errors aren't coming from within the
native DLLs, they are from other wine DLLs.

So I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience and what the
reaction from the devs has been to such bugs.  I have not submitted a bug to
wine before so just looking for pointers :-).

Thanks,
appleshampoo

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:38 PM, appleshampoo <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to play a game (Star Wars: Rebellion) and it mostly works
except for the tactical battle mode.  There have been workarounds suggested on
the appdb page
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=181&iTestingId=33818),
which include getting a native d3drm.dll, which I did.  This and one other
native DLL (d3dxof.dll) reduced the number of errors and also prolonged the time
to crash, but there are still other errors causing the game to crash in this
mode.
>
> The original problem with d3drm.dll is in Bug 8232
(http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8232), but it doesn't look like
it's going to get fixed any time soon.  So I want to submit a bug for the
further errors, but the docs say not to submit bugs using native DLL overrides. 
But in this case, it seems like additional bugs would still be there even if the
d3drm.dll bug was fixed?  Obviously this isn't a 100% statement, but I can
tell from the debug output that the errors aren't coming from within the
native DLLs, they are from other wine DLLs.
>
> So I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience and what
the reaction from the devs has been to such bugs.  I have not submitted a bug to
wine before so just looking for pointers :-).
>
> Thanks,
> appleshampoo
>
>
>
>
>
>
Yeah, go ahead. Just be sure to mention that you used the dll and the
bug # it works around.

-- 
-Austin

Thanks.  I submitted bug 16149 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16149)