Installation

[Randy Heineke]

gerard patel wrote:

> >2. If I have no Microsoft Windows, should there not be any Windows
> >registry?

Without a Microsoft windows installation, should one expect a message
saying
no Default Taskbar?  


> >3. What does it mean to "live with" no original registry entries.
> 
> basically living with means accepting what you
> can't change.

I wasn't looking for incite ;-). I wanted more insight into the
consequences of not having registry entries.
e.g. wine will work, or, any windows application that I want to run
would have to be "installed" to get the registry
setup.


> >4. This has me wondering if wine's version of these .dll's (0 size)
> >should be bigger?
> 
> What do you mean by that ? Wine does not have dll
> file. Wine libraries are .so files.

Well Wine was complaining about shell32.dll and I could find a 
~/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/System/shell32.dll but it contains 0 bytes


> This should not happen if setup correctly, but you seem
> to use a tool that is obsolete since a long time.
is winesetuptk obsolete? What is current? 
I got it from a page saying that regapi was no longer needed

> 
> >6. If there is some dll override setting that should be altered?
> 
> override ole32 to builtin ?
> Try -debugmsg +loaddll to see what Wine is trying to do
> with dlls, as it's sometimes difficult to manage configuration
> files.

wine --debugmsg +loaddll KG35WINDEMO.EXE
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadLibraryExA Loaded module
'C:\Windows\System\kernel32.dll' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadLibraryExA Loaded module
'C:\Windows\System\advapi32.dll' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadLibraryExA Loaded module
'C:\Windows\System\user32.dll' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadModule16 Loaded module 'krnl386.exe' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadModule16 Loaded module 'system' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadModule16 Loaded module 'wprocs' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadModule16 Loaded module 'GDI.EXE' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadModule16 Loaded module 'USER.EXE' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadLibraryExA Loaded module
'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\x11drv.DLL' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadModule16 Loaded module 'display' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadLibraryExA Loaded module
'C:\Windows\System\winmm.dll' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadLibraryExA Loaded module
'C:\Windows\System\lz32.dll' : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_LoadLibraryExA Loaded module
'C:\Windows\System\version.dll' : builtin
err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) ole32.dll needed by shell32.dll
not found
err:module:load_library can't load shell32.dll
err:seh:UnhandledExceptionFilter Couldn't start debugger
(debugger/winedbg 134633336 60) (2)
Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another
debugger
> 
> Gerard


Thanks,