Installshield in pure wine environment

[Duane Clark]

Daniel J Urist wrote:
> I am trying to install a free Windows application called ForeignDesk
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/foreigndesk/),
> which uses Installshield v. 6.; it fails with the error
> 
> "IKernel.exe could not be copied to 'C:\Program Files\Common
> Files\InstallSheield\Engine\6\Intel 32". I'm using wine-20030508.
> 
> The usual solution to this, from what I can gather from Google Groups, is
> to copy the "native" stdole.tlb file to the wine systems directory. Has
> anyone found a "pure" wine solution to this? I'm running a linux-only
> environment, and have no access to a windows box and so no way of getting
> a "native" stdole.tlb.

There was a patch submitted to Wine, but not accepted:
  http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/01/0402.html

Some discussion of it:
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/04/0562.html

You could always give that patch a try.