Nearly all Installshield installers fail

[Robert Shearman]

Joaquín Fernández wrote:

> > With my application (Route 66), it enables me to start copying files,
> > however the progress bar never moves. However, the installer is doing
> > something but seems to be stuck somewhere. Maybe some deadlocks.
>
> I have had many problems with InstallShield but i was able to install 
> the programs (about 3 or 4 programs using InstallShield that i need) 
> using WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n,b". You can probe with 
> this.. it worked for this programs in Wine 2004XXXX and 2005XXXX. 
> Obviously, you must verify that this DLLs exist in the system dir.


This is not a good long-term solution since it requires a download from 
Microsoft. There are a number of issues with InstallShield currently. I 
had hoped that getting one working would get all working, but this 
doesn't seem to be the case from the current discussion on wine-devel. I 
am aware of 3 issues with ole32, 2 deadlocks and one error. The 
remaining issues appear to be with the typelib marshaler, which 
unfortunately lacks regression tests.

Rob