"This program requires Microsoft Windows"

Uwe Bonnes bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
Thu May 3 08:49:35 CDT 2001


Stein Oddvar Rasmussen <stor at pogostick.net> wrote:
:>
:> First: Please choose your own subject line.

: Meaning? Is there a problem with using the error-message as a subject line?

Okay, you _choose_ a subject line, but you posted as answer to another 
thread...

:> Second: Read about debugging wine and look what functions are called before
:> you get above message (is it a messagebox?) and try to find out what's
:> going wrong.

: No messagebox. No wine error. All is well, except the program runs as if I've 
: started it in DOS-mode. The result:

: $ wine FC5506US.EXE
: Warning: unprotecting the first 64KB of memory to allow real-mode calls.
:          NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
: fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
: fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
: èSThis program requires Microsoft Windows.
: $

: And that's all.

: Where do I go from here?

The program seems to have a DOS header, maybe to unpack the
programm. Perhaps Ove can  confirm if this constellation is supposed to run.

You might try:
$ wine --debugmsg +relay,+int21 FC5506US.EXE >/tmp/wine.debug

Bye
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