Thanks Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Pouech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:50 PM > To: Medland, Bill > Subject: Re: Any advice on how to debug this? > > > "Medland, Bill" a écrit : > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > So now what do we do. > > > > Having messed about, got a repeatable case and generally > bashed my head > > around I have got to the following unfortunate situation. > > > > It looks to me like: > > > > comctl32.dll includes a shared data segment. > > One of the entries in that segment, presumably during the > DllEntry, is > > populated with the address of GetSystemMetrics > > > > A second copy of comctl32 then tries to use that address to call > > GetSystemMetrics > > > > Unfortunately the second process has user32 mapped > somewhere else and so the > > call goes somewhere weird and things fall over. > > > > Any ideas as to what we can do about it? > hmm bad news... > > did you try to run your app with a NT version (instead of a > Win9x), that > could help (maybe)
No, but I have now. (and ignored all the complaints about mixed versions). It works!! I think that this will be the way to go; see Alexandre's reply. > another thought, when your processes disapear under the > debugger, is the > wineserver still up and running (if it crashes, it may explain the > vanishing processes) Yes it was > another solution would be to disable the support for the shared data > segment... but in your case, it could fix this issue but open another > one TOO TRUE!! The app is very dependent upon shared data segments. > > btw, are you sure user32.dll is mapped at another address in > the second > process Yes > another fix would be to force some DLLs to be loaded at fixed > addresses > (user32 could be one of them)... > another question, are you sure the two processes load the > same user32 ? Yes > (could it be that two wine versions coexist and that a > different one is > loaded in each process) ? > > A+ > Thanks for all the help Bill
