[Wine] Re: Wine and Skype
Eric Pouech
no_spam_at_all_eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
Mon Mar 19 00:46:29 CDT 2007
Guido Milanese wrote:
> I am currently running Skype version 1.3 on a Linux Mandriva 2006
> system. It works well, but the Windows version is really superior,
> supporting several interesting features missing from the Linux version.
> So I tried to use wine for that. I am not familiar with wine (never
> need Windows programs, really) and I tried to use what had been
> installed by Mandriva.
>
> Testing wine, it's all right with the preconfigured programs I can
> access from the wine menu.
> Trying to use Skype, i get some error messages:
>
> fixme:actctx:QueryActCtxW stub!
> fixme:commctrl:InitCommonControlsEx Unknown class! dwICC=0x4000
> fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB
> copy
> fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB
> copy
> fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB
> copy
> fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB
> copy
>
> if I use 'nt40', and messages inviting to use nt40 (or win31) if I
> leave automatically detection possible.
>
> The Skype error windows opens and a message (in Italian) saying that
> Skype needs several more files is displayed (not really helpful).
>
> Browsing the debug output, I think that the clue may be in lines as
> this one:
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Programmi/Skype/Phone/advapi32.dll
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/k:
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system/advapi32.dll
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/advapi32.dll
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"C\\windows\\advapi32.dll" not
> found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/k:
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system/advapi32.dll
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Programmi/Skype/Phone/advapi32.dll
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/k:
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system/advapi32.dll
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/advapi32.dll
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"C\\windows\\advapi32.dll" not
> found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/k:
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in
> /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system/advapi32.dll
>
> Is it a problem of path?
>
> Thanks a lot to those who will kindly help me.
>
> guido, italy
>
how did you setup wine? a fake advapi.dll should be present in your fake
windows directory (when using latest wine).
A+
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Eric Pouech
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