[Wine] Re: How to install programs in wine?

[Ron Thompson]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:53:01 -0400, Vincent Povirk wrote:

>> There are three windows partitions on this machine besides the linux
>> one. The wine c: points to HDA1. There is a real windows directory
>> there, but it doesn't show up in terminal when looking at wine. Maybe
>> the multiple partitions (on two physical drives) are throwing wine off?
> You should really let Wine use the c: directory that it creates. I don't
> think using another drive as c: is really a supported setup (in fact I've
> heard running things from vfat partitions is known to cause weird problems
> and suspect ntfs could do the same).
> 
> Wine comes with its own windows directory, its own dlls, and its own
> programs that you shouldn't mess with (except on occasion if it doesn't
> happen to provide some dll or you have to to get some program to run).
> 
> Some people like to copy program files directly from a windows partition
> and try to run them. That doesn't always work, much like copying program
> files from one windows machine to another doesn't always work (often the
> program relies on something like registry entries, and if this is the case
> then there's no way wine could run it properly). That's why the
> documentation says to run the installer on wine.
> 
> Otherwise, creating drive letters for your other partitions shouldn't be a
> problem.
> 
> If you want to start over, you can always rename your .wine directory to
> something else and it'll make a new one.

OK. Thanks for the help. people. I found my main problem was wine wasn't
installed properly.
I got it running by deleting it and loading the latest from Wine HQ.

I know wine is operational because I was able to load and run and old
version of TurboCAD.
I am attempting to get AutoCAD200 to work. It seems every time I jump
through a hoop, there is another behind it!
I got the DLLs in the right place, finally. Now it appears there is a line
of code that does something screwy.
I am not a programmer and don't know how to debug it.

here is where I am:
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ron at ron-desktop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/ACAD2000$ wine acad
wine: Call from 0x6372b436 to unimplemented function ac1st15.dll.?__acMalloc@@YIPAXI at Z, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function ac1st15.dll.?__acMalloc@@YIPAXI at Z called at address 0x6372b436 (thread 002f), starting debugger...
Usage:
        winedbg [ [ --gdb ] [ prog-name [ prog-args ] | <num> | file.mdmp | --help ]

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