FL Studio 8 regcode isn't accepted

flat · Post by **flat** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:34 am

Has anyone else experienced this?

Running the latest wine 0.9.58. FL7 installed alongside accepts the new regcode, FL8 doesn't and is a demo.

flat · Post by **flat** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:48 pm

Anyone else experiencing this?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:00 pm

flat wrote:Has anyone else experienced this?

Running the latest wine 0.9.58. FL7 installed alongside accepts the new regcode, FL8 doesn't and is a demo.

What's the full name of your program?

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:08 pm

I've been following this bug since FL7.4-ish and Wine 0.9.5?-ish. I suspect this is an advapi32 problem because I see no calls (directly) to crypt32 or rsaenh, but I am not crypto expert. It could also be related to the way Wine checks time/date, since these FL beta reg codes are all time-limited expiring. If so, then this problem (might) go away when FL8 is officially released (ie if it is not time limited).

I also see there are various issues with values being read from the registry by other unrelated programs, so that could be part of the problem. For example my Goldwave program intermittently loses it's registration code and I have to re-enter it. Once entered though, it works for a while (versus FL where it never works). The only reason I have not filed a bug report is that FL8 is not publicly available and is in beta. It would no doubt help to regress back to a Wine version that works, but there may not be one, as the problem might be the combination of (the newer) FL and Wine.

Bill

flat · Post by **flat** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:40 pm

billstei wrote: The only reason I have not filed a bug report is that FL8 is not publicly available and is in beta.

FL Studio 8 was officially released two days ago and it's not a beta anymore and it is publically available for download at www.flstudio.com

billstei wrote:
It would no doubt help to regress back to a Wine version that works, but there may not be one, as the problem might be the combination of (the newer) FL and Wine.

I actually tried the previous verson of Wine (0.9.46?). I ran FL7 on it with no glitches, then installed FL8. Seeing it doesn't accept my regcode I upgraded Wine to 0.9.58, but still the same problem. It just won't get out of demo mode (I have the latest FL8 regcode).

flat · Post by **flat** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:49 am

Until it's sorted out, I guess we'll need to stick to version 7, huh.

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:39 am

Use one of your (20) *votes* for bug 12279:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12279

Bill

P.S. And vote for all the rest of the bugs too: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=11368

P.P.S. FLSynthmaker is going to be another big problem...(I think)

flat · Post by **flat** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:04 pm

billstei wrote:Use one of your (20) *votes* for bug 12279:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12279

I have voted for 12279, Will look at the other bugs soon. Thanks.

flat · Post by **flat** » Sat May 31, 2008 6:36 am

Now that wine is 1.0rc3 has anything changed with regards to getting FL Studio 8 out of demo? Does wine recognize the reg key? Please post your feedback.

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Sat May 31, 2008 2:41 pm

Just tested FL8 with Wine 1.0 rc3 and FL does not accept the reg code.

About a month ago I did some debugging and what I can say is that Wine appears to be reading the reg code from the registry okay (every char had a leading 00 which I assume is unicode? Is that screwing it up? No idea.) I think this has something to do with the way that Wine reports back date/time. There was at least one bug/thread that discussed the year-month-day default formats of date/time in Wine -- related? I'm just shooting in the dark, but this may not be a cryptographic problem at all.

This is a complete show-stopper from my point of view for FL Studio. Being able to run the demo and not the registered version is about the same as not being able to run it.

Bill

flat · Post by **flat** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:00 am

billstei wrote: This is a complete show-stopper from my point of view for FL Studio. Being able to run the demo and not the registered version is about the same as not being able to run it.

I agree entirely.

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:40 am

I have FL8 registering now by simply compiling Wine (1.1.0-253 git) with gcc 4.1.3 instead of gcc 4.2.3 that I typically use. I would be very interested to know if anyone here can duplicate this workaround.

Bill

flat · Post by **flat** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:32 pm

How would one go about compiling Wine (1.1.0-253 git) with gcc 4.1.3? I'll post my results once I know how to do that.

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:30 pm

You should probably use Wine 1.1.5 at this point if you want to have something more current. The only step that you need to change is the configure. Instead of these typical steps:

./configure
make depend
make

You would use this:

CC="gcc-4.1" ./configure
make depend
make

You will of course need to have the gcc-4.1 package installed in order to use it, and here on my debianish Ubuntu, gcc 4.1 can peacefully coexist alongside gcc 4.2.x without issue.

I also prefer to put Wine into /usr (rather than /usr/local ) and then use checkinstall to generate a deb, so my own personal scheme looks like this:

CC="gcc-4.1" ./configure --prefix=/usr
make depend && make
sudo checkinstall --install=no
sudo dpkg -i [whatever_package_you_just_created].deb

Checkinstall unfortunately is not without it's quirky problems... it helps to have both wine and wine-dev packages installed prior to running checkinstall, and once checkinstall has created the deb (but not installed it yet) remove both wine and wine-dev, then install the deb.

Bill

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