wine-compholio

The Wine "Compholio" Edition repository includes a variety of patches for Wine to run common Windows applications under Linux.

These patches fix the following Wine bugs:

  • (Wine Bug #32328) Many .NET and Silverlight applications require SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_CHANGE for interface change notifications
  • (Wine Bug #31858) Netflix on Firefox fails with Internet Connection Problem when loading bar is at 99%
  • (Wine Bug #34406) Finale Notepad 2012 doesn't copy/create user files on program start
  • (Wine Bug #17273) Many apps and games need SetNamedPipeHandleState implementation (support for named pipe message mode)(FireFox+Flash, Win8/NET 4.x SDK/vcrun2012, WiX installers)
  • (Wine Bug #12401) Support junction points, i.e. DeviceIoCtl(FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT/FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT)
  • (Wine Bug #5048) Multiple applications and games need support for ws2_32 SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER TransmitFile (WSAID_TRANSMITFILE)
  • (Wine Bug #32323) Netflix (Silverlight 4.x) and several .NET Framework 3.x/4.0 WPF apps require either Arial or Verdana to be installed
  • (Wine Bug #15980) Rhapsody 2 crashes on startup (GetSecurityInfo returns NULL DACL for process object)
  • (Wine Bug #29903) Some Microsoft debuggers fail to enumerate processes due to wtsapi32.WTSEnumerateProcessesW() being a stub (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, DbgCLR from .NET 2.0 SDK)

Besides that the following additional changes are included:

  • XEMBED support for embedding Wine windows inside Linux applications
  • Support for PulseAudio backend for audio
  • Support for GetVolumePathName
  • Lockfree algorithm for filedescriptor cache (improves file access speed)
  • Workaround for shlwapi URLs with relative paths
  • Reduced SetTimer minimum value from 15 ms to 5 ms (improves Silverlight framerates)
  • Other Pipelight specific enhancements
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