[Wine]Re: FreeCell

[Duane Clark]

Joshua Crawford wrote:
> * Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> [2005-03-29 18:12 +0200]:
>>I get the same error as Jeremey:
>>'Could not load 'CARDS.DLL' required by 'FREECELL', error=21'
>>with Wine 20050310.
>>freecell.exe and cards.dll are in the windows directory, cards.dll is in 
>> windows/system too. Both come from a win98se installation disk.
>>This seems to be a regression, as it worked for me in former versions of 
>>Wine (sorry, can't recall which ones).
>>Klaus
> 
> 
> I think 20031016 was the last version that it worked with. Sometime around
> then anyway. After that, the builtin cards.dll was changed from the 16-bit
> one to the 32-bit one.
> 
> <http://groups.google.com.au/groups?threadm=87vfirep59.fsf%40mail.wine.dyndns.org>
> 
> Since it can't be overridden for some reason (that was explained to me, but
> I've since lost the email -- something about wine preferring 32-bit dlls), I
> just remove the cards.dll.so each time I upgrade.

I see that in CVS just today, there is:
http://cvs.winehq.org/patch.py?id=16932

So if you are using CVS, you might want to give it a try. Else wait for 
the next Wine "release".