[Wine] Running .NET programs under Wine

[James Hawkins]

On 5/25/07, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/25/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 25/05/07, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/25/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > I want to run AutoWikiBrowser, which is a browser especially optimised
> > > > for editing Wikipedia:
> > > >     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP%3AAWB
> > > > It's open source, but it's only available as a .NET 2 program for
> > > > Windows. I try to run it and I get:
> > > >     fun at paris:~/My Downloads$ AutoWikiBrowser/AutoWikiBrowser.exe
> > > >     install the Windows version of Mono to run .NET executables
> > > > I install Mono for Windows 1.2.4. I try again, and I get:
> > > >     fun at paris:~/My Downloads$ AutoWikiBrowser/AutoWikiBrowser.exe
> > > >     Stacktrace:
> > > > So ... what do I try next? wine --version gives 0.9.33 (Ubuntu
> > > > Feisty). Is it worth trying 0.9.37?
> >
> > > It's always worth trying the latest release.
> >
> >
> > wine.budgetdedicated.com added to apt, 0.9.37 installed. New error message:
> >
> > fun at paris:~/My Downloads$ wine AutoWikiBrowser/AutoWikiBro.exe.
> > fixme:wave:ALSA_AddCaptureDevice Add support for DSCapture
> > Stacktrace:
> >
> >
> > (That's the word "Stacktrace:" followed by a blank line, then back to
> > the bash prompt.)
> >
> > Well, worth a try. Does anyone have any .NET-specific help on this
> > one? What issues have others had with .NET programs? How many actually
> > do work under Wine with Mono for Windows?
> >
> >
>
> We're getting a slow trickle of .NET app bug reports, but that number
> is small so far.  We should have a few people working on this soon,
> but it'll be on a bug-by-bug basis.  Please open a bug report for the
> application.
>

A good thing to test is whether this app works using Mono in Windows.

-- 
James Hawkins