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[[!tag open_issue_porting]]

On 2010-11-28, Austin English contacted us, stating that he's working on
porting [Wine](http://winehq.org/) to the GNU/Hurd.

It is not yet clear how difficult this is going to be, what sort of
requirements Wine has: only libc / POSIX / etc., or if there are
*advanced* things like [[system_call]] trapping involved, too.

[[Samuel|samuelthibault]] suspects that *there's some need for LDT table
allocation. There is kernel support for this,* however.


# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-11

    < arethusa> I've been trying to make Wine work inside a Debian GNU/Hurd VM,
      and to that end, I've successfully compiled the latest sources from Git
      after installing the libc (devel) packages from experimental and
      personally patching Wine with http://pastebin.com/rg6dx09G

[[rg6dx09G.patch]]

    < arethusa> my question is, when trying to launch Wine, I'm seeing "wine
      client error:0: sendmsg: (os/kern) invalid address" from the client side,
      whereas the wineserver seems to be starting and running correctly, how
      could I debug this issue further? using rpctrace doesn't seem to help, as
      the trace just hangs when run on the Wine loader instead of yielding
      insight
    < kilobug> arethusa: isn't there a wine debuguer that can start a gdb when
      wine encounters an error or something like that ?
    < arethusa> it's too early for that
    < kilobug> or least give you a full traceback of the wine code where the
      error occur ?
    < arethusa> the error is happening during initial connect to the
      wineserver, in dlls/ntdll/server.c
    < arethusa> but that doesn't help me figure out why sendmsg would error out
      in this way
    < arethusa>
      http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/HEAD:/dlls/ntdll/server.c#l361
    < azeem_> arethusa: probably some of the msghdr entries are not supported
      by the Hurd's glib
    < azeem_> c
    < pinotree> haha, socket credentials, which we don't support yet
    < azeem_> yep
    < pinotree> youpi: ↑ another case ;)
    < azeem_> arethusa: just implement those and it should work
    < kilobug> in pflocal ? or glibc ?
    < pinotree> pflocal
    < arethusa> azeem_: hmm, okay, thanks
    < pinotree> arethusa: their lack is a known issue, and makes things like
      dbus and gamin not work
    < arethusa> it's
      https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/sendmsg_scm_creds.html and
      related links I assume?

[[sendmsg_scm_creds]]

    < youpi> yes
    < pinotree> (but that patch is lame)


# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-02

    <gnu_srs> youpi: I've come a little further with wine, see debian bug
      #724681 (same problem).
    <gnu_srs> Now the problem  is probably due to the specific address space
      and stack issues to be
    <gnu_srs> fixed for wine to run as braunr pointed out some months ago
      (IRC?) when we discussed wine.


# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-12-29

    <Andre_H> Hi,
      http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/sendmsg_scm_creds.html seems
      fixed in Debian GNU/Hurd 2013, do you know which patch they used? i
      already asked in their channel, but well, there are only 18 people :)
    <youpi> Andre_H: it hasn't been fixed in Debian GNU/Hurd. Work is discussed
      on the bug-hurd mailing list
    <Andre_H> youpi: thx for the info, i wonder why wine now works with some
      hacks, but didn't in the past
    <youpi> I guess some circumvention patch was added to wine
    <youpi> does it actually really work, as in running applications for real?
    <youpi> (I've nevere tried)
    <Andre_H> youpi: i'm a wine developer and haven't seen circumventions for
      hurd... i also just tried winelib apps last night, will try... let's say
      powerpoint viewer today
    <gnu_srs> Andre_H: How did you make wine run? I have patches for wine-1.4.1
      and 1.6.1 to build (so far unpublished), but it does not yet run
      properly.
    <gnu_srs> test case: wine notepad
    <Andre_H> gnu_srs: what's happening when you try that?
    <gnu_srs> Andre_H: Currently it hangs at connect() (after creating the
      /tmp/.wine1000/.../socket, etc, and starting again)
    <gnu_srs> seems to be some problem with the HURD_DPORT_USE macro in eglibc,
      investigation ongoing
    <Andre_H> gnu_srs: well, i'm using the debian distro, maybe you're on
      something else? you could also pastebin your hacks, so i could have a
      look. i'm about to clean mine up to send them upstream... ntdll will be
      quite hard...


## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-12-30

    <gnu_srs> wine runs:)
    <gnu_srs> It's just extremely slow.,..

    <gnu_srs> gg0: please don't reopen #733604 , I've filed an updated one:
      #7336045
    <gnu_srs>  #733605
    <gg0> gnu_srs: i've reassigned it from wine-1.6 (nonexistent) to wine
      (correct), then to src:wine (more correct), but between such
      reassignments you closed it so found command in the latter made it
      reopening
    <gg0> then i realized you could mess up bugs on your own, without help :)
    <gnu_srs> gg0: tks anyway, now it is src:wine and the title is right. Maybe
      you should have noted me on IRC?

    <Andre_H> gnu_srs: what's your status about wine? i'm still about to get
      things upstream...
    <gnu_srs> Andre_H: see debian bug #733605


## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-12-31

    <Andre_H> gnu_srs: i didn't need the patches for
      dlls/mountmgr.sys/diskarb.c, maybe due to missing headers


## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-01-06

    <Andre_H> Wanted to note that
      http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/wine.html is wrong about
      socket credentials, afaik they are still not implemented but that doesn't
      block Wine anymore
    <Andre_H> In fact all you need to run Wine are the patches followed by
      https://source.winehq.org/patches/data/101439 (not yet upstream) or see
      http://wiki.winehq.org/Hurd

    <braunr> Andre_H: thanks for your report
    <Andre_H> np :)
    <Andre_H> braunr: can someone update
      http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/wine.html please?
    <braunr> Andre_H: well, you can :)
    <Andre_H> log in with google -> check guidelines of your wiki -> try out
      your wiki syntax -> laziness alarm :)
    <gnu_srs> Andre_H: The reason why wine runs now is a bug in SCM_CREDS was
      fixed, see the wine-devel ML.

    <gnu_srs> Andre_H: s/SCM_CREDS/SCM_RIGHTS/
    <Andre_H> gnu_srs: already updated our wiki :)
    <Andre_H> gnu_srs: would you mind updating yours:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/wine.html :)

    <Andre_H> gnu_srs: two commits for wine are in now :)


## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-01-11

    <gnu_srs1> Andre_H: Looks like the two committed patches did not go into
      wine-1.6.2:-(
    <gnu_srs1> Additionally, your PATH_MAX fixes was not accepted?
    <Andre_H> gnu_srs1: well, the stable branch is called stable because not
      everything get's there :)7
    <Andre_H> gnu_srs1: the PATH_MAX patch needs more thinking...

## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2015-02-09

    <Andre_H> since Wine 1.7.28 it runs quite well on Gnu/Hurd - wiki.winehq.org/Hurd
    <Andre_H> ( https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commitdiff/6d50cfcac28f84e07777fc10874887356832102e )