winetricks failed, expecting "system32" where I have "System32" and so on

[Helge Hafting]

Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no> wrote:
>> I just tried installing gdiplus using winetricks, on a debian testing
>> system.
>>
>> This failed, as winetricks tried to copy stuff into windows/system32,
>> where I happen to have Windows/System32.
>>
>> I first tried making symlinks windows->Windows and system32->System32.
>> winetricks would run, but the app using gdiplus.dll now failed to find it.
>> The file was in Windows/System32 as expected.
>>
>> So I removed my links, and used search&replace on winetricks, to replace all
>> occurences of "windows" and "system32" with captialized versions. Then I ran
>> winetricks again. The installation succeeded this time too, but the app
>> could still not find the dll in System32.
>>
>> I finally gave up and copied the dll into the directory where the app
>> is installed. This worked, but is problematic; it will have to be done for
>> every app that uses this dll.
> 
> Why did you rename system32? Are you linking your ~/.wine/drive_c to a
> real windows installation?

I never renamed system32 - I don't like uppercase in filenames. I can 
only guess that wine did it that way itself in 2003 when I installed it.

I have no real windows installation. I use wine to run the one windows 
program I need - a raw converter for my digital camera.

Helge Hafting