Good Afternoon.

In section 3.3.6.2 of your User Guide you ask readers to report successes with databases other than MS SQL. Well here's one (I know Access 2000 can work with Wine, but this doesn't require Access):

How to set up Wine to enable Windows programs that read and write to Jet (Access) databases using ODBC. I write such programs in C and use the API defined in

ODBC API Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714562%28VS.85%29.aspx

They work fine on Windows and only require Mingw to be installed to compile and link them, both for console programs and those using Windows SDK. You then can write interactive programs in C which use a full-featured SQL database which comes bundled with Windows. No need to purchase Access.

With the set-up below they will also run on Linux (Kubuntu 9.04) and Wine 1.1.26.

You need to update the registry to install the Access drivers. Under Windows, export from the Registry to *.reg files the registry entries - HKLM\Software\ODBC - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Jet all subsidiary keys and values come with them.

You can carefully edit these files to remove drivers and DSNs you don't need.

Import these files using the registry editor in wine:

wine regedit.exe.

You need to bring across from Windows to Windows\System32 under wine:

clbcatq.dll comres.dll expsrv.dll msjet40.dll mswstr10.dll msjter40.dll msjint40.dll msjtes40.dll msrd3x40.dll odbc32.dll odbccp32.dll odbcji32.dll odbcjt32.dll odbcad32.exe odbcint.dll odbctrac.dll vbajet32.dll

Register this server in wine: wine regsvr32.exe msjtes40.dll

No need to install MDAC.

To use Windows ODBC drivers, you have to override Wine's odbccp32.dll and odbc32.dll with the native versions because the Wine versions are currently wired directly to Linux's unixodbc.

This can be done by setting up the ODBC Data Source Administrator odbcad32.exe using winecfg: - Add the program to the Applications tab - then in the libraries tab, pick from 'New override for library' drop-down odbc32.dll and odbccp32.dll add them and edit them to be Native for Windows.

Then if you do

wine odbcad32.exe

this brings up the ODBC Data Source Administrator window as in the Windows Control Panel

If needed, set up (System) DSNs using this program.

Bring across the programs and *.mdb database files from Windows.

Using winecfg, you need to set up each program you want to run with overrides for odbc32.dll and odbccp32.dll (Applications and Libraries tabs) as above.

The programs should then run as they did in Windows but perhaps a bit slower with:

wine Odbc-prog.exe

This has been tested twice on a clean .wine install. I cannot vouch for support of all API and SQL facilities however.

I hope someone finds this useful.

Barry Bird