[Wine] Re: ACT! 6.0 under Wine

[shane2peru]

Duane Clark wrote:
> shane2peru wrote:
> > ...
> > Ok, here is what happened.  When I set msvcrt to Native - or Native
> > Bulletin this is the results:
> >
> > wine C/ACT/act.exe
> > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "MSVCRT.dll" failed to initialize,
> > aborting
> > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
> > L"Z:\\home\\shane\\C\\ACT\\act.exe" failed, status c0000142
>
> That is strange. I don't know of a reason why you would get the message
> "MSVCRT.dll" failed to initialize.
>
> Basically, you cannot use Wine's msvcrt because it does not implement
> the function _mbsspnp() (which I think is the problem making ACT 6 not
> work). And a native msvcrt is breaking for some mysterious reason which
> I don't know how to solve. So you seem to be stuck.
>
> What is really needed is an implementation of _mbsspnp() in Wine's
> msvcrt, but that appears to be non-trivial. Of course, once past that,
> the program could possibly break somewhere else. Though I guess ACT 6 is
> a bit old, so there is a decent chance that it might work if that
> function were implemented.

ACT 6 is actually pretty new.  It isn't the newest version, I think
they are up to 7 now.  I started with ACT 3, then went to ACT 2000
(really version 5) and Now I have 6.   I appreciate the help. 

Shane