system directory selection

[Andreas Mohr]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:00:38PM -0500, Brian Elliott wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just installed WINE for the first time and had some trouble getting 
> dlls to load until I set the "system" option to my Win2k partition's 
> system32 directory in wine.conf.  Auto discovery of the proper system 
> directory for wine.conf by wineinstall seems like a useful thing for new 
> users.  Would it be useful if I put together a small patch to the 
> wineconf program so that running wineinstall will select the right 
> system directory for configuration?  
Why not ? ;-)

> Also, is it correct to assume that if a system32 subdirectory exists 
> under the winnt or windows directory that it should be set given 
> preference in wine.conf as the system directory?
I'm afraid that's not the case.

Win9x might have a system32 directory (I think it often has),
but nearly always it's pretty empty.

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