Wine and Micro$oft Office

[Rein Klazes]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 21:14:36 +0100, you wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi Robert (Shearman)
> 
> I took good notice of your last mail concerning my pb about wine and running 
> excel.exe.
> 
> I usually get :
> >> fixme:ntdll:NtConnectPort (0x40575a30,L"\\RPC
> 
> and you said
> > These are an example of Microsoft not documenting a whole set of functions
> > to manipulate an NT primitive. They are part of an API called Local
> > Procedure Call (LPC) and it is mainly used by RPC (the RPCRT4 DLL) to
> > communicate between COM apartments on the same machine.
> > In short, it is a known bug with Wine, but we haven't been motivated to both
> > document and implement LPC yet.
> 
> but then I wonder how some people do to get around this pb and can easily get 
> excel or word working... I guess there is a trick about the config file ! I 
> got to have ole32 and oleaut32 as native if I want 

People use the win98 dll's because the NT/2k/XP ole dll's cannot be used
by wine (for reasons explained above).

Others use a fake windows installation and then install the dcom98
package (also on your office CD), that does the same thing (install
win98 ole* dlls).

Rein.
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Rein Klazes
rklazes at xs4all.nl