Can't run RPGMaker VX Ace games with wine-proton [SOLVED]

[apple75]

My wine-proton installation fails to run RPGMaker VX Ace games. When attempting to run the game, an error message appears, "DLL initialisation failed."
I have tried recompiling wine, downgrading wine, and even re-emerging all packages. The problem persists. I also could not find similar cases with the same problem.
Manually compiling wine-proton does not have this issue.
I ran it again with WINEDEBUG=warn+seh and it has an seh:dispatch_exception message which is not reproduced in the manually compiled version.

[Ionen]

Does it work with non-proton? ebuild is largely the same for wine-vanilla and staging, with the exception that wine-proton supports enabling/disabling less features given upstream Valve doesn't really test/support toggling these and use a specific configuration for Proton.

When you say manual build, did you use the same configure options? And was it a wow64 build or a 32-bit only build? (latter is the default, so if you did nothing special it's what you get -- possible to do that with the ebuild too if USE=-abi_x86_64)

Also wine-proton is always a USE=mingw build (the USE isn't made available to turn it off unlike staging/vanilla, and mingw is needed for a lot of popular games like Blizzard titles and Valve always enables it -- not that it's impossible it cause issues with some more obscure things, in that situation I'd suggest wine-vanilla/staging). Note not to confuse USE=mingw with crossdev-mingw, you can ignore the latter and leave it disabled.

If you did a manual build, I assume it didn't use mingw unless you setup the PATH for mingw64-toolchain and did --with-mingw to be sure, e.g.
PATH=/usr/lib/mingw64-toolchain/bin:${PATH}

[apple75]

Thanks for your response.

Wine-vanilla and wine-staging also have the same problem for me. As you predicted, I did nothing special, so it was a wow64 build and it didn't use mingw.
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[apple75]

Compiling wine-vanilla with USE="-mingw" still results in the same error.
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[Ionen]

Are you setting CFLAGS for your manual build? If not, that'd mean ebuild is using -march=native and your manual one is not. Possible there's something strange going on with it plus your hardware given the "illegal instruction" bit, so may want to try without and just -O2.

Can't think of a whole lot, the ebuild isn't really doing anything particularly special.

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