[Wine] Visual Fox Pro 6 application

[Howard Hughes]

Angel Rengifo Cancino wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I'm trying to run an application that was made with Visual Fox Pro 6.
>I tried some different previous versions of Wine like 0.9.3 and 0.9.7.
>Sometimes I got error messages like "There's no enough memory to
>complete this operation" and "Incompatible integer type..." or
>something like that.
>
>Finally I upgraded to 0.9.9 version and I had no previously mentioned
>problems except when I try to start my VFP application I get this
>error message "I can't establish an innitial connection" in an
>Windows-style dialog, and also this little message in stderr:
>
>fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx :stub
>fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx :stub
>
>Does anybody know what can I do? I'd appreciate some help. Thanks anyway, bye
>
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I can't give specific advice, but the type of messages you are getting 
suggest that wine needs configuring to use windows native versions of 
certain .dll's (foxpro is very fussy about this) and possibly that you 
have an ODBC configuration problem.

In the former case I cannot give up to date information, the following 
list of .dll's required is out of date and wine has improved 
sufficiently since this list was compiled that wine versions of some of 
the following will now work fine. Also it refers to VFP8, however the 
situation with VFP6 is probably identical. Of course all the ones with 
"vfp" in the title ship with Foxpro so there won't be wine versions. 
You'll have to experiment a bit.

    Arrange to copy the following files from a legitimate source to 
"~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system" and, where "wine" versions exist, 
configure wine to use the native versions when VFP is running:

    oleaut32.dll    (in c:\windows\system32)
    msvcrt.dll    (in c:\windows\system32)
    mscomctl32.dll    (in c:\windows\system32)
    odbc32.dll    (in c:\windows\system32)          If using ODBC (i.e. 
remote connections)
    odbcint.dll    (in c:\windows\system32)          If using ODBC (i.e. 
remote connections)
    msvcr70.dll    (in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8\Visual 
Foxpro 8.0 Professional - English)
    vfp8enu.dll    (in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Foxpro 8)
    gdiplus.dll    (in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP)
    vfp8renu.dll    (in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP)
    vfp8r.dll    (in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP)

Or, you can put symbolic links in the directory to some other place 
where you have these files.

Concerning the ODBC, if your applications are making remote connections 
you need to set up appropriate DSN's under wine. As far as I am aware 
this cannot be done under wine directly yet, as the appropriate dll 
returns error messages even when using the native version ("out of 
memory", as I recall). So fire up the windows box on which you have run 
your applications successfully, do start->run->regedit and locate the 
HKEY LOCAL MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> ODBC node in the tree in the left 
panel, right click on the node and select "export". You now have a text 
file that can be imported into the wine registry. This advice assumes 
you are using System DSN's (most people do). User DSN's are, I believe, 
in HKEY CURRENT USER ... when you are logged as the user concerned (file 
DSN's, as the name implies, are in a normal file that must simply be 
copied to where the application can see it). I can't give precise advice 
on how to import to the wine registry. This used to involve inserting 
the text manually into the wine system registry file whilst wine wasn't 
running (you have to adjust the headers a bit, and those funny numbers 
on the end should just be left out) - but perhaps wine's regedit tool 
can do this better now. There was a reader of this list who did this 
recently so post specifically about Foxpro, the ODBC and the registry to 
perhaps get better advice.

The font messages are harmless. Ignore them.

If you are not already aware, wine has issues with the following Foxpro 
features: Tooltip text (it clips), WAIT WINDOW (may not display, or 
clips) - these are cosmetic problems, but if they cause trouble just 
avoid tooltips or keep them very short and use messageboxes instead of 
WAIT WINDOW - Warning: do not apply patches advertised on some 
out-of-date websites for these problems: the patch is broken (it blocks 
threads).

This is all the help I can give. Good luck.