[Wine] Getting a proprietary Win32 application running on Wine

[Austin English]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:36 AM, RUMI Szabolcs <rumi_ml at rtfm.hu> wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> I'm trying to get a proprietary business application running.
> It is basically a kind of a special small business accounting
> app which can be used in a distributed manner. If it is configured
> this way, the server installation is running an MSSQL server
> instance locally to store the data, while a client installation
> just uses the remote server installation (apparently directly
> connects to the remote MSSQL instance). I'd be very happy if
> I could get at least a client installation running under Wine
> while running the server installation under a real Windows
> environment.
>
> The client software package installs under Wine seamlessly.
> When started, it crashes with an exception until I install
> Microsoft Database Engine. With MSDE installed the program
> does start up but stops immediately with an error dialog
> basically saying that it cannot connect to the database.
> From a quick .exe strings analysis I believe it has been
> coded in Borland Delphi.
>
> Well, it is possible that this is only some network level
> issue (LMHOSTS lookup failing or whatever) but realistically
> I suspect that there could be some deeper problem than that
> as the program fails to create some OLE objects etc.
>
> How do I start to make it work?
>
> I can send a Wine debug log if somebody with a clue would
> be so kind to look into it...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sab
>
>

Try:

$ wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks hosts jet40

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-Austin