[Wine] Re: Wine and MS Access problem

[Daniel Skorka]

Robert McLean <robert.mclean1 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> [Bob at Cogitron ~]$ wine "d:\program files\ltc\swcadiii\scad3.exe"
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> accessible.
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> accessible.
> 4259: assertion failed "(*(const char*)_DBUS_FUNCTION_NAME) != '_'"
> file "dbus-connection.c" line 2877 function
> _dbus_connection_read_write_dispatch
> 
> Then a window opens up with my scad in it running as it should, and I
> use it despite the error messages.
> Note that my windowsXp is on my D drive, not C, so it looks to me that
> wine looks at C, cant find windows, spits out the error message, tries
> D, finds windows, and then succeeds from there.  So that error message
> doesnt seem to matter to me.

You haven't mentioned your wine version.
It seems that you want to use a native windows installation as your C
drive. This is really not recommended. You should instead use a fake C
drive. What are the drive assignements you have made?

> Now heres my Access problem
> [Bob at Cogitron ~]$ wine "d:\program files\microsoft
> office\office\msaccess.exe"
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> accessib le.
> err:module:import_dll Library msjet35.dll (which is needed by
> L"D:\\program file s\\microsoft office\\office\\msaccess.exe") not
> found
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"D:\\program
> files\\m icrosoft office\\office\\msaccess.exe" failed, status c0000135
> [Bob at Cogitron ~]$
> 
> 
> Based on my success with swcad, I ignore the windows\\system32 not
> accessible message.
> But I dont understand the msjet35.dll not found message.  I have
> looked, and msjet35.dll is in D:/windows/system32 where it belongs.
> Wine managed to find my program files in D, why cant it find
> msjet35.dll ??   Is the final error message caused by not finding
> msjet35.dll, or is it something else entirely ?

Wine doesn't find your program files. You tell it there is an executable
in D:\program files\... , it runs it. The program then manages to find
the files in its own directory. It doesn't find msjet35.dll because that
is in d:\windows\system32, which is not the program directory and not
what you told wine where windows\system32 is. Result: File not found.

Daniel