It hangs forever after import "wmi" package about wails HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for saving my day! I edited wmi package and changed MTA to STA, and it works. I haven't figured out whether STA is proper for wmi package, but every api I use from wmi package seems work well.

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This issue is caused by the fact, that Webview2 (the webview component on Windows) is based on COM, and must be run on Single-Threaded-Appartment Threads.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/threading-model

The WebView2 control is based on the Component Object Model (COM) and must run on a Single Threaded Apartments (STA) thread.

The WMI package seems to currently demand Multi-Threaded-Appartment as defined here: https://github.com/drtimf/wmi/blob/main/init.go#L94-L96

I don't know if WMI really needs MTA or can also work with STA. So for the time being the WMI package is not compatible with Wails. You might work around it by using a dedicated OSThread for all WMI operations. But as long as the initialisation of OLE is done in the init() method, this is not really achievable.

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Thanks for letting us know it works!

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