[Wine] How to install gds32.dll into wine

[Yves Glodt]

Ari.Adrianto wrote:
> Hi All,

Hi,

> I’m new in Linux... My Office will migrate from Windows to Linux.
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> We’re using Mandrake 10.
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> Actually there’s no problem migrating office application into Linux, but 
> some of our application that is using firebird cannot instantly migrate 
> to Linux. That’s why wine is my hope solution for this.
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> After I install  wine-20050830-mdk.i586.rpm almost “exe file” can be 
> executed. But application that is using firebird RDBMS need GDS32.DLL . 
> Is there any one who knows how to install this DLL into wine ?

I was in the same case and I put fbclient.dll and gds32.dll to the 
windows\system directory of the wine directories.
Additionally, you have to add this line:

gds_db          3050/tcp

to the file windows\system32\drivers\etc\services


HTH,
Yves

> I’ve tried to put this DLL into the same directory of “exe” application, 
> but wine still cannot find it ?
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> //Best Rgds,//
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> //Ari Adrianto//