[Wine] Re: ACT! 6.0 under Wine

[shane2peru]

shane2peru wrote:
> Duane Clark wrote:
> > shane2peru wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Ok, here is what happened.  When I set msvcrt to Native - or Native
> > > Bulletin this is the results:
> > >
> > > wine C/ACT/act.exe
> > > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "MSVCRT.dll" failed to initialize,
> > > aborting
> > > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
> > > L"Z:\\home\\shane\\C\\ACT\\act.exe" failed, status c0000142
> >
> > That is strange. I don't know of a reason why you would get the message
> > "MSVCRT.dll" failed to initialize.
> >
> > Basically, you cannot use Wine's msvcrt because it does not implement
> > the function _mbsspnp() (which I think is the problem making ACT 6 not
> > work). And a native msvcrt is breaking for some mysterious reason which
> > I don't know how to solve. So you seem to be stuck.
> >
> > What is really needed is an implementation of _mbsspnp() in Wine's
> > msvcrt, but that appears to be non-trivial. Of course, once past that,
> > the program could possibly break somewhere else. Though I guess ACT 6 is
> > a bit old, so there is a decent chance that it might work if that
> > function were implemented.
>
> ACT 6 is actually pretty new.  It isn't the newest version, I think
> they are up to 7 now.  I started with ACT 3, then went to ACT 2000
> (really version 5) and Now I have 6.   I appreciate the help.
>
> Shane

Got it!!!  Ok, I set ACT 6 to run under Win 98, and then set the msvcrt
to Native, Bulletin.  Also there was an update on wine so I got the
latest version, that may have had something to do with it.  I'm just
glad it works!!!  Thanks for the help!

Shane