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Commit 90855a2993e breaks wow64 builds on bleeding-edge

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c

Research direction

Start by inspecting commit 90855a2993e and reproducing a bleeding-edge build with the new wow64 mode. Trace the change associated with the reported kernel32.dll and wineboot failure; done means Wine builds and loads successfully in wow64 mode without the reported error.

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Description

If you try to build bleeding-edge using the new wow64 mode, wine will fail to load with this error:

0024:err:environ:run_wineboot failed to start wineboot 1                                                 
wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135

I bisected the issue to commit 90855a2993e

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