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[Witty]

I'm aware that their core purpose (storing military gear) has been broken since Forever, but I thought a binary patch had come along with DFhack that fixed it...

However, even with the latest DFhack version installed, they still don't seem to work.

So I guess my questions are;

Does DFhack not automatically fix this issue? Does the patch need to be downloaded separately? Or has the patch simply not been ported to the newest version?

[fricy]

Or has the patch simply not been ported to the newest version?

https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/issues/546

[Witty]

  That's kinda a shame. Thanks for the information anyway.

[Urist McCoder]

if you don't mind modding you could mod in a weapon/armor stand creature, and then use df hacks spawn unit script, to create it using a reaction.

[scamtank]

That's kinda a shame. Thanks for the information anyway.

What's wrong? The only missing piece is the armor stand fix, which means you just want to assign two stands per guy.

[Zarathustra30]

Is there a way to install this with WinMerge?

[scamtank]

Is there a way to install this with WinMerge?

It's... a .dif file that you stick into a DFHack subfolder. Like installing any other plugin.

[Zarathustra30]

I want a way to install it without DFHack. It takes a week to get it running after a minor release and a month after a major one.

[scamtank]

Getting a DFHack plugin to work without DFHack needs more sorcery than I can muster.

[Eldin00]

Even if you could get it working without DFHack (not a small task), you'd have to re-do the work to get it working every new release, for the same reasons that it takes a while to get DFHack updated to work with a new release.

[Zarathustra30]

I assume you can just perform the operation manually with a hex editor, such as Notepad++.

The biggest issue is finding the right place again, which is what WinMerge would be useful for. The code would likely not change unless Toady touches it. In that case, we may not even need the patch.

[scamtank]

Oh, in THAT manner. Sure, the .dif file is plain text that has the relevant stuff at the bottom, like this:

Code: [Select]

005BF984: 8B 89
005BF985: 8C C1
005BF986: 24 90
005BF987: 80 90
005BF988: 00 90
005BF989: 00 90
005BF98A: 00 90
005BFA61: 8B 89
005BFA62: 8C C1
005BFA63: 24 90
005BFA64: 80 90
005BFA65: 00 90
005BFA66: 00 90
005BFA67: 00 90
Find the left, replace with right.

[Zarathustra30]

The problem is the locations will change with a new version, and the string is short enough to be repeated multiple times. I guess I could search for the code in between the two modified locations, and go from there.

Here it is, for future reference:

Code: [Select]

6a 04 51 57 e8 ac 10 ad ff 84 c0 75 2e 8b 85 d0 00 00 00 8d 0c b0 8b 85 d4 00 00 00 8d 51 04 2b c2 c1 f8 02 03 c0 03 c0 50 52 51 ff 15 bc d2 d7 00 83 c4 0c 83 85 d4 00 00 00 fc 4e 0f 89 46 ff ff ff 8b 44 24 14 8b b0 e4 00 00 00 2b b0 e0 00 00 00 c1 fe 02 4e 0f 88 c3 00 00 00 8b e8 8d a4 24 00 00 00 00 8b 15 a4 85 a1 01 a1 a8 85 a1 01 8b 8d e0 00 00 00 8b 1c b1 2b c2 c1 f8 02 85 c0 74 68 83 fb ff 74 63 8d 48 ff 85 c9 79 04 33 ff eb 2f 8b c1 d1 f8 8b 3c 82 8b 57 48 3b d3 74 21 85 c9 75 04 33 ff eb 19 3b d3 7e 07 8d 48 ff 6a 00 eb 02 40 50 b8 a4 85 a1 01 e8 b6 4f a4 ff 8b f8 85 ff 74 25 8b 17 8b 82 68 01 00 00 8b cf ff d0 3b 45 00 75 14 
You'll want to go to the first "8b" before and after the excerpt and make your modifications from there.

Edit: Unfortunately, the code seems to change slightly between versions. You can still find it using Ctrl-F, but it requires using a smaller subset of the code. This is why WinMerge would be handy.