Porting Matrix Online Emulator to Wine on Ubuntu Linux

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I don't think there's any 64-bit code in this. Probably want to set your wine-prefix to 32-bit.

I'm running into the same patching issue when I attempt to recreate and document the process. I originally ran the game client from a Windows 10 VM under VirtualBox, so it did all the patching there, and then I zipped up the directory and moved it to Linux because I wanted to see if I could get it to run under Wine. SO I admit that my install wasn't right from the website now that I think about it. Taking a look at some of it though and here's what I've found:

It looks like the new dbghelp.dll has Rajko's URL in it...but there's an error that occurs when you run launcher.exe and it calls on that DLL...

0037:err:dbghelp:SymCleanup this process has not had SymInitialize() called for it!

I don't know C++ at all, but my theory is that the error is preventing the URL information in the updated DLL from superseding the one that exists in the Launcher, and the patching process is continuing to use the stock launcher's http://patch.thematrixonline.com:7030/ address instead of the one present in the patched dbghelp.dll

I had thought this might be related to either an incorrect version of the Visual C++ libraries I had installed in my wine-prefix, but so far I've tried 2008, 2010, 2015 and maybe a few others with no luck yet.

We might need some insight from Rajkosto on the SymInitialize/SymCleanup message above. I don't think the problem is in the code, but something in our wine-prefix that is missing.