winetricks failed, expecting "system32" where I have "System32" and so on

[Austin English]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no> wrote:
> I just tried installing gdiplus using winetricks, on a debian testing
> system.
>
> This failed, as winetricks tried to copy stuff into windows/system32,
> where I happen to have Windows/System32.
>
> I first tried making symlinks windows->Windows and system32->System32.
> winetricks would run, but the app using gdiplus.dll now failed to find it.
> The file was in Windows/System32 as expected.
>
> So I removed my links, and used search&replace on winetricks, to replace all
> occurences of "windows" and "system32" with captialized versions. Then I ran
> winetricks again. The installation succeeded this time too, but the app
> could still not find the dll in System32.
>
> I finally gave up and copied the dll into the directory where the app
> is installed. This worked, but is problematic; it will have to be done for
> every app that uses this dll.

Why did you rename system32? Are you linking your ~/.wine/drive_c to a
real windows installation?

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-Austin