[Bug 13599] Can't install Autocad 2005

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13599





--- Comment #39 from max at veneto.com  2008-06-15 03:12:22 ---
(In reply to comment #37)
> (In reply to comment #36)
> > I'm wondering why autocad installer needs opengl at all... at least, with
> > autocad2005 the installer doesn't do graphics at all.
> 
> Most likely the installer does some checks whether the system is suitable
> for running Autocad itself. I suspect that Autocad will crash for you as
> well once it's installed.----

Nope. I'm using, thanx to Louis's hack, Autocad for my daily job. I'd say that
I tested 100% of it. Before the hack I had to use a virtual machine just to run
it.

What's the worst is that, from answers in forums and here, it seemed to me that
running a decent version of autocad was almost impossible in wine, and I was
giving up.... then Louis solved it at once with a really simple hack.

I can't really believe that an application that has the second/third place on
user's requests deserves so few attention from wine devels. There are tons of
civil ingeneers/architects that would to go to linux and can't because of lack
of an Autocad alternative.... and we're focusing on making M$ Access/Outlook or
IE ??? That's what I really can't understand.

Well, back to Autocad. Once installed, it runs perfectly, see at AppDB, I
posted a little howto. You need some dll overrides to make it ALL work, and
there are a couple of (IMHO) dumb bugs to solve before it can go to
gold/platinum status.

The OpenGL problem is ininfluent after setup. And, IMHO, Louis solution of
catching the exception on glGetString() code is right, as glGetString()
shouldn't crash anyways, just return an error code if called in wrong
environment.

Max


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