[Wine]Can't load X dll...

Stefan Munz stefan.munz at itomig.de
Tue Jul 20 14:27:34 CDT 2004


> > Am Dienstag, 20. Juli 2004 03:54 schrieb Dave Washburn:
> > > My question is both general and specific.  First the specific: I'm
> > > trying to run Logos 2.0 Bible software under the latest release of wine
> > > that I got and installed from cvs about 2 days ago.  That release cured
> > > a lot of my woes (thanks to all who pointed me that way) but now when I
> > > try to run this particular program, it keeps telling me it can't load a
> > > particular DLL, specifically LEAD20.DLL which is part of the Logos
> > > package.  I've checked my wine.conf for the location of the system
> > > folder and made sure the file is there; when that didn't work I copied
> > > the file to the program's own system folder, and I just keep getting
> > > the same message.  I checked my Windows machine and found a couple of
> > > lines in the win.ini that weren't in my Linux one, so I added those and
> > > tried again.  No help. What's the next step?
> >
> > I assume you didn't you install the program in wine, but copy it from
> > your windows machine. I could solve some dll issues by exporting the
> > registry under windows and importing it in wine.
>
> You assume correctly.  What's the process for doing this with the registry
> on the Linux/wine end?

just copy the (exported) windows registry file to your fake_win dir, start 
regedit ("wine regedit") and import it. maybe a "reboot" of wine is needed 
("wineboot"). 

>
> > One other (maybe obvious) possibility is that the permessions on the
> > copied dll file are wrong.
>
> Nope. I checked that :-)  Still, it never hurts to ask; part of my personal
> philosophy is, the answer is always simpler than we think it is.
>

maybe not always but more often than we think ;-)




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