On Monday 11 November 2002 07:44 am, Alberto Massari wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > At 13.27 09/11/2002 +0100, Carlos Lozano wrote: > >Hello, > > > >It includes 3 lists, a gold list with applications what are > >working almost 100% in wine, a silver list with application > >what could be working in wine with some work in them, and > >the full list with every test done :) > > Speaking about IE 5.5, I was able to install it without first > installing dcom95/98 simply by placing rundll32.exe in the c:\windows > directory. I know that a pre-requisite of the compatibility list is > not to have files coming from a Windows installation, so I wanted to > ask everybody: should be build a built-in version of rundll32.exe > (just like we have regedit and regsvr32)?
yes. > Or is this job already on > the plate of who is in charge of doing the "reboot" utility (a bunch > of the RunOnce entries written by the installer of IE are calls to > rundll32.exe)? Isn't rundll32's job to run out-of-process COM servers which have been registered, for example, via regsvr32? If I have this right, this is not going to be an easy thing to implement, since it will need data marshalling, and other scary features, some of which I am working on now....right? I think we need some of the COM wizards around here to provide some guidance on this. > Or am I volunteering for the job? ;-) yes ;) Or maybe not. see above. -- gmt Do you frequently think "there ought to be a law..."? Afraid that people you /don't like/ have too much FREEDOM? Concerned about the unequal powers of the EVIL RICH? Think the government could solve your neighbor's problems? You aren't the first. http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html