Linux - Awesomium

**Skafac** · Nov 29th, 2010, 07:00:05

I can confirm that this workaround does work with the current Stable release of Wine, version 1.2-1ubuntu1~lucidppa1. I have not tried any of the 1.3 Development releases.

**bratch** · Nov 29th, 2010, 11:37:48

Are you able to play the game normally, or is mouse movement/camera broken?

**DocJones** · Nov 29th, 2010, 12:19:10

RMB Button doesnt work to move camera around. NUMPAD keys do work. I think its safe to say thats unrelated to the awesomium.dll problems the WINE users are experiencing

**Stormgiver** · Jan 22nd, 2011, 16:30:05

For all interested in playing AO in Wine - I got it working again.

I use Ubuntu 10.10, patched the Wine 1.3.12 sources and created a .deb for the 64bits version.
You can get it here wine1.3_1.3.12-0ubuntu1~maverickppa1-AnarchyPatches1_amd64.deb.
The package lib32nss-mdns seems to be needed.

You may have to install the Wine PPA by adding the following repository to your sources: ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

This version works for me and I wanted to share it.
Oh, the ingame store does not work - but I don't want it anyways...

Here is what a you have to do (if using Ubuntu and if you are complete n00b like me):
First download the two needed patches from here: http://bugs2.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=30775 and http://bugs2.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=32688

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
to enable the development branch of Wine

sudo apt-get update
to update your sources list

apt-get source wine1.3
downloads and extracts the sources

cd wine1.3-1.3.12-0ubuntu1~maverickppa1
changes to the directory

sudo apt-get build-dep wine1.3
to get the needed development files. Beware! 500MB!

patch -p1 < /path/to/raw_input_mod.patch
apply patch 1

patch -p1 < /path/to/0021-Return-ERROR_IO_PENDING-from-NotifyAddrChange.patch
apply patch 2

dch -l -AnarchyPatches
to append a suffix to the final package; this is not really needed if you disable the PPA after installation

dpkg-buildpackage
and your done. Append -j4 to the command if you've got a multicore cpu.

**raw_fox** · Jan 23rd, 2011, 03:45:04

confirmed !

Fedora14_64 with wine 1.3.12 and the patches http://bugs2.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=30775 (awesomium error fix) and http://bugs2.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=32688 (mouselook fix) made the game working again.

It will hit the official repo's sooner or later and we have already seen the shop workig under Linux by some user, so this is definitly solveable.

/rocky

**Stormgiver** · Jan 23rd, 2011, 14:35:57

I updated the Ubuntu amd64 package with a fix proposed here.

Download.

This new patch makes the ingame store work.
You have to install vcrun2008 in winetricks or sth similar.
Beware! This could possibly break other games you are running in Wine!

**raw_fox** · Jan 23rd, 2011, 15:05:18

Originally Posted by Stormgiver

I updated the Ubuntu amd64 package with a fix proposed here.

Download.

This new patch makes the ingame store work.
You have to install vcrun2008 in winetricks or sth similar.
Beware! This could possibly break other games you are running in Wine!

have you touched RtlCaptureBackStackTrace to return 0; ?

i cannot confirm this working on fedora, at least yet.
need to work yet, gonna look some deeper tonight.

**Stormgiver** · Jan 23rd, 2011, 15:14:11

I did comment the whole function out leaving only the return 0; line intact.
It looks like this:

Code:

USHORT WINAPI RtlCaptureStackBackTrace( ULONG skip, ULONG count, PVOID *buffer, ULONG *hash )
{
    return 0;
}

**Stormgiver** · Feb 7th, 2011, 23:56:17

Wine 1.3.13 (Ubuntu 64bit, from Wine PPA sources) with AO patches: Download.

**Lliers** · Feb 8th, 2011, 05:17:03

Originally Posted by Stormgiver

I did comment the whole function out leaving only the return 0; line intact.
It looks like this:

Code:

USHORT WINAPI RtlCaptureStackBackTrace( ULONG skip, ULONG count, PVOID *buffer, ULONG *hash )
{
    return 0;
}

This is no longer needed for Wine 1.3.13. The committed code now has a trap for bad frames.

**Stormgiver** · Feb 8th, 2011, 18:22:56

Right. It isn't included in the version I posted.

**Lliers** · Feb 17th, 2011, 05:52:03

Good news. The fix to NotifyAddrChange has been accepted and committed. If you build wine from sources pulled down using git or in the next developmental release, then you only need the RawDeviceInput patch.

**spookiepants** · Feb 18th, 2011, 11:33:52

Originally Posted by Lliers

Good news. The fix to NotifyAddrChange has been accepted and committed. If you build wine from sources pulled down using git or in the next developmental release, then you only need the RawDeviceInput patch.

has the RawDeviceInput patch been submitted? any status on whether that will be committed? and when?

**Lliers** · Feb 18th, 2011, 15:42:35

Originally Posted by spookiepants

has the RawDeviceInput patch been submitted? any status on whether that will be committed? and when?

Unfortunately, no and no. I'm not sure why, but wine only has stubs for all the RawDeviceInput functions. There are at least half a dozen bug reports for various games that use RawInput for capturing mouse movement, and all of them resort to various flavors of the patch that Luke provided for AO.

There are two factors that prevent the adoption of the RawMouseInput routine. First what I do know is that whoever coded the original implementation did a messy job, and it doesn't meet the standards for the WINE project admins. The second is totally a guess of mine, but I think there is an underlying difference in the way mouse input is reported in Windows versus Linux. One reports relative mouse movements, the other absolute position, and so all these patches that implement RawInput for games are just a kludgey estimation of the actual mouse movement that the game/WINE really wants, so without a "correct" solution, the admins don't want to commit these one-offs, since every game with a reported bug has a slightly different patch to get the desired mouse behavior for that game.

**Stormgiver** · Feb 19th, 2011, 16:24:44

Wine 1.3.14 with raw_input_mode_patch only.
Download here.

**nakper** · Feb 27th, 2011, 14:32:27

Originally Posted by Stormgiver

Wine 1.3.14 with raw_input_mode_patch only.
Download here.

Could you provide i386 bin or the sources please?

**Stormgiver** · Feb 27th, 2011, 18:37:07

I can try but I guess I have to cross-compile.
If you use Ubuntu, you can follow the guide I posted earlier.
Just be sure to apply raw_input_mode_patch only.

**nakper** · Mar 1st, 2011, 00:08:21

And any other workaround for the vc2008 trick? It will break some apps...

I don't catch how they used closed source html engine and other libs when they could use QT or... I don't know, there are so many libs... and the purpose, rendering html inside a sprite (or game window) ?
We all can live without it, the new item window it's a good idea but they could help a bit Wine comunity and their pockets...

**Lliers** · Mar 1st, 2011, 04:48:47

Originally Posted by nakper

And any other workaround for the vc2008 trick? It will break some apps...

Just put AO in its own WINEPREFIX and put everything that AO and AO related things in that WINEPREFIX. You can write a little script or alias to always automatically start AO with that wine prefix.

**Sterva** · Mar 6th, 2011, 19:19:47

What would one look for to get wine to behave properly running AO on mac os x?

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