[Wine] Re: ACCESS application in wine

[Frank Busse]

Hi Duane,

thx for your advice. In the meantime, I've installed the program in a 
VMware virtual machine (and it does fine). But it would definitely be 
much more convenient to have it running on wine!

The way you describe sounds straight enough even for a 'simple' user 
like me. But I'm running a bit short of time in the moment (who isn't?) 
and will revert to this case as soon as I can afford...

Frank

Duane Clark wrote 07.12.2006 23:23:
> [...]
> 
> How much effort do you want to put into getting it to run? Probably an 
> old app intended to run under Win98 can be made to run under Wine 
> without too much trouble. Since it is an old program, I don't suppose a 
> trail version is available on the web somewhere.
> 
> If you want to spend a bit of time, you might want to open up a bug on 
> it, and post in this thread the bug number. I would be interested in 
> seeing if it is a problem in reading the database files.
> 
> As an idea of things you might end up doing, probably the first step 
> would be to set an environment variable to get relay traces:
> export WINEDEBUG=+relay
> Then run the program, redirecting the output to a file:
> wine myprogram.exe >& wine.log
> That will probably make your program run very slow, and wine.log could 
> become 100s of MBytes, so plenty of disk space and a fast computer help.
> 
> Once the problem happens, exit the program. See if the error message is 
> in the log file:
> grep "Data type mismatch" wine.log
> If it is, the lines before that might give some clues to what the 
> program is doing, and which DLL is the problem.
> 
> Is this a path you are interested in taking?