DLL not loading, msjava.dll, Encyclopedia Britannica

[Stephan Matthiesen]

Hi,

excuse me if my problem is something obvious, but I'm lost and couldn't find 
any useful information (is there a search function for the list archive?). Im 
new to Wine (and only recently switched to Linux).

Problem:
I'm trying to run the Britannica Encyclopedia 2000 (BCD2000), but when I start 
it I get the error message (in a popup window) "Unable to start the 
application - Java virtual machine not found".

As far as I could figure out, the JVM included on the CD  was correctly 
installed in /wine-c/windows/system/Msjava.dll  (/wine-c is my virtual 
C-Drive). So somehow it doesn't seem to find it.

I tried to start wine  with debugmessages:
   wine --debugmsg +loaddll BCD2000.exe
gives messages that a number of builtin dlls have been loaded, but no mention 
of msjava.dll. When I try
   wine --dll msjava=n --debugmsg +loaddll BCD2000.exe
Exactly the same - no msjava.dll appears in the message (shouldn't this load 
msjava.dll from windows/system in any case?). 

Other debugmessages (fixme, err) don't give any errors at all. 

I also tried to include an entry 
"msjava" = "native"
in the config file, but no result.

I'm using Wine 20030219 on Redhat 8.0. Winecheck gives no errors (except for 
floppy and CD not present). I have no native Windows installed. The Setup 
program for the Encyclopedia Britannica worked smoothly and installed the 
program in /wine-c/Program Files/Britannica/BCD

Relevant sections in my ~home/.wine/config:
[Drive C]
"Path" = "/wine-c"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "MS-DOS"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
(...)
[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "e:\\"
"Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\\"
(...)
[DllOverrides]
(... a nomber of dlls ...)
"*" = "builtin, native"

I have no idea what to do - do I have to set the path to the dll somewhere, or 
does the msjava.dll not work at all (why don't I get an error)? Or is the 
"Java not found" message about somethin completely different?

I don't know if anything else in my wine installation might be wrong. The 
installation seemed to go without problems. I don't have other Windows 
programs to try, only winmine (included in wine), and WinEdt - both seem to 
work ok.
 
Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance!

All the best
Stephan

Stephan Matthiesen
Institute for Meteorology, University of Edinburgh
http://www.met.ed.ac.uk/~stephan