4 Some simple advice on making your bug report more useful (and thus more
5 likely to get answered and fixed):
7 1) Post as much information as possible.
9 This means we need more information than,
10 "MS Word crashes whenever I run it. Do you know why?" Include at
11 least the following information:
13 - Version of Wine you're using (run 'wine -v')
14 - Operating system you're using, what distribution (if any), and what
16 - Compiler and version (run 'gcc -v')
17 - Program you're trying to run, its version number, and a URL for
18 where the program can be obtained (if available).
19 - Command line you used to start wine
20 - Any other information you think may be relevant or helpful.
22 2) Re-run the program with the -debugmsg +relay option
23 (i.e., 'wine -debugmsg +relay sol.exe').
25 If Wine crashes while running your program, it is important that we
26 have this information to have a chance at figuring out what is causing
27 the crash. This can put out quite a lot (several MB) of information,
28 though, so it's best to output it to a file. When the Wine-dbg> prompt
31 To accomplish this, use the following commands:
33 wine -debugmsg +relay [other_options] program_name | tee filename.out
34 head -100 filename.out > report_file
36 'report_file' will now contain the last hundred lines of the debugging
37 output, including the register dump and backtrace, which are the most
38 important pieces of information. Please do not delete this part, even
39 if you don't understand what it means.
41 3) Post your report to the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
43 In your post, include all of the information from part 1), and insert
44 the text from the output file in part 2). If you do this, your chances
45 of receiving some sort of helpful response should be very good.
47 4) Questions and comments
49 If after reading this document there is something you couldn't figure
50 out, or think could be explained better, or that should have been
51 included, please post to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine to let us know
52 how this document can be improved.