4 There are two ways for you to make a bug report. One uses a simple perl
5 script, and is recommended if you don't want to spend a lot of time
6 producing the report. It is designed for use by just about anyone, from
7 the newest of newbies to advanced developers. You can also make a bug
8 report the hard way -- advanced developers will probably prefer this.
11 1) Your computer *must* have perl on it for this method to work. To
12 find out if you have perl, run:
14 If it returns something like "/usr/bin/perl", you're in business.
15 Otherwise, skip on down to "The Hard Way".
16 If you aren't sure, just keep on going. When you try to run the script, it
17 will become *very* apparent if you don't have perl.
19 2) Change directory to <dirs to wine>/tools
21 3) Type in "./bug_report.pl" and follow the directions.
23 4) Post a message to the comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine newsgroup with the
24 "Nice Formatted Report" attatched. If possible, upload the full debug
25 output to a web/ftp server and provide the address in your message.
30 Some simple advice on making your bug report more useful (and thus more
31 likely to get answered and fixed):
33 1) Post as much information as possible.
35 This means we need more information than a simple
36 "MS Word crashes whenever I run it. Do you know why?"
37 Include at least the following information:
39 - Version of Wine you're using (run 'wine -v')
40 - Operating system you're using, what distribution (if any), and what
42 - Compiler and version (run 'gcc -v')
43 - Windows version, if installed
44 - Program you're trying to run, its version number, and a URL for
45 where the program can be obtained (if available)
46 - Command line you used to start wine
47 - Any other information you think may be relevant or helpful, such as
48 X server version in case of X problems, libc version etc.
50 2) Re-run the program with the -debugmsg +relay option
51 (i.e., 'wine -debugmsg +relay sol.exe').
53 If Wine crashes while running your program, it is important that we
54 have this information to have a chance at figuring out what is causing
55 the crash. This can put out quite a lot (several MB) of information,
56 though, so it's best to output it to a file. When the Wine-dbg> prompt
59 You might want to try +relay,+snoop instead of +relay, but please note
60 that +snoop is pretty unstable and often will crash earlier than a
62 If this is the case, then please use *only* +relay !!
63 A bug report with a crash in +snoop code is useless in most cases !
65 To get the trace output, use the following commands:
68 echo quit|wine -debugmsg +relay [other_options] program_name >& filename.out; tail -n 100 filename.out > report_file
69 (This will print wine's debug msgs only to the file and then
70 auto-quit. It's probably a good idea to use this command, since wine
71 prints out so many debug msgs that they flood the terminal, eating CPU.)
73 tcsh and other csh-like shells:
75 wine -debugmsg +relay [other_options] program_name |& tee filename.out
76 tail -100 filename.out > report_file
78 bash and other sh-like shells:
80 wine -debugmsg +relay [other_options] program_name 2>&1 | tee filename.out
81 tail -100 filename.out > report_file
83 'report_file' will now contain the last hundred lines of the debugging
84 output, including the register dump and backtrace, which are the most
85 important pieces of information. Please do not delete this part, even
86 if you don't understand what it means.
88 3) Post your report to the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
90 In your post, include all of the information from part 1), and insert
91 the text from the output file in part 2). If you do this, your chances
92 of receiving some sort of helpful response should be very good.
94 4) Questions and comments
96 If after reading this document there is something you couldn't figure
97 out, or think could be explained better, or that should have been
98 included, please post to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine to let us know
99 how this document can be improved.