Installation

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Randy Heineke wrote:

> Please help,
> I Did my best at following instructions and reading documentation
> and newsgroups but am still confused.  I have some questions:
>
> I have no windows partition or MicroSoft Windows.
> I have /c, /c/Program_Files.....
> I did run winesetuptk to generate some registries

I don't know what winesetupk is, so take this with a grain of salt.
The only registry entries Wine has to give you are in winedefault.reg,
and they got there by somebody figuring out from the behavior and
content of a windows program that it wanted to see them, making up a
patch, and contributing it to Wine.

> When I run winecheck I get
>
> 021. Checking availability of windows registry entries...   CRITICAL
> (entry "Default Taskbar" not found).
> - ADVICE: Windows registry does not seem to be added to Wine. This can
> affect many newer programs. Original registry entries won't be available
> with a no-windows install, of course, so you'll have to live with that..
>
> The advice offers no action,
> but seems to imply adding registry entries to wine,
> which I thought winsetuptk handled.
> I do have ~/.wine/system.reg, ~/.wine/user.reg and ~/.wine/userdef.reg
>
> 1. Is the Default Taskbar really Critical?

winecheck thinks it is.  I don't have one, nor even know what a Taskbar
is.
>
> 2. If I have no Microsoft Windows, should there not be any Windows
> registry?
>
> 3. What does it mean to "live with" no original registry entries.
>
Some apps may not be happy, and may behave badly.  To "live
with" something is to bear it with good grace.
>
> I also went ahead and tried to execute something.
> I seem to have run into some basic .dll issue,
> that may not need winedbg.
>
> When trying to execute wine e.g.
>  wine --winver win95 ./KG35WINDEMO.EXE
>
> the results is:err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) ole32.dll needed
> by shell32.dll not found
> err:module:load_library can't load shell32.dll
> err:seh:UnhandledExceptionFilter Couldn't start debugger
> (debugger/winedbg 134633336 60) (2)
> Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another
> debugger
>
> 4. This has me wondering if wine's version of these .dll's (0 size)
> should be bigger?

Where are you finding 0 size dlls?  /c/windows/system ?
Wines's version of these .dll's are named libole32.so and libshell32.so
and they typically live in /usr/local/lib, unless whoever made up the
package (.rpm, .deb, or whatever) decided to put them somewhere else
to confuse me, or you ./configured wine with a different --prefix=
>
> 5. Is this complaining because wine needs the Windows .dll's?

The only way Wine needs Windows .dll's is if the Wine Administrator
tells it to use them.
>
> 6. If there is some dll override setting that should be altered?

Maybe.  For a true "no windows" wine, this is all you need in
[DllOverrides]
"*" = "builtin, so, native"

Apps written in Visual C or whatever uses msvcrt will crash trying to
use the wine builtin, however, at least juno does.  But its installer
installs its own copy of msvcrt, so I can use

[DllOverrides]
"msvcrt"       = "native, builtin, so"
"*"            = "builtin, so, native"
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Randy

Right.

Lawson

panic: detected rogue system administrator!!
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