"This program requires Microsoft Windows"

Andreas Mohr zstkyu9001 at sneakemail.com
Thu May 3 10:08:27 CDT 2001


Stein Oddvar Rasmussen <stor at pogostick.net> wrote:
> No messagebox. No wine error. All is well, except the program runs as if I've 
> started it in DOS-mode. The result:

> $ wine FC5506US.EXE
> Warning: unprotecting the first 64KB of memory to allow real-mode calls.
>          NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
> fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
> fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
> èSThis program requires Microsoft Windows.
> $

> And that's all.

> Where do I go from here?
I'd say this is a case where Wine doesn't recognize that this is a valid
Windows file.
This exact binary file does run under Windows, right ?

I'm highly interested in such cases.

Can you send me that exe file ?
(this file is enough; I don't need any DLLs or so...)

Andreas Mohr



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