[Wine] Re: wine and catia OpenGL issues

[Mike Anderson]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:53:53 -0800, dank wrote:

> Mike Anderson wrote:
>> Has anyone tried running catia (R5V16) useing wine.
>>
>> I am unable to get the install of the program to start off in wine.
>> I have tried 0.9.27, heard about an opengl issue and went to 0.9.29.
>>
>> Thinking it might be an issue with my lack of understanding of the
>> operation of wine I installed AutoCAD14 and Homeworld2 to know if it was
>> working correctly and had no problems.
>>
>> I fought with the installer for a couple days ...
> 
> I've filed this problem as http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7237
> Can you go there and add more detail, e.g. what the
> symptoms of the install problem are?
> 
>> and decided to shortcut and
>> dropped a spare hard drive into my machine with Win2K and installed catia
>> on it. The install worked there and the program worked fine. I booted back
>> to my linux (Fedora Core 5) and copied all the installed files into my
>> file system (Win2K is fat32 drive).
>> Launched catia and got a warning that no certified opengl library could be
>> found. The app. continued to load to the GUI and toolbars but closes in
>> about 3 seconds.
>>
>> I pulled a opengl tester of the net and ran it under wine to see that it
>> would work. I have an Nvidia pci express card with Nvidia's x86
>> 1.0-9629 driver. It reported no errorsand the video display was running
>> smoothly.
> 
> It'd be nice to know what was on the wine console about the time the
> app aborts.  Perhaps you could file a second bug at
> http://bugs.winehq.org
> for this.
> 
> BTW this could be one of the killer apps for Wine if it were to work
> well,
> at least in the mechanical engineering community...
> - Dan

I have just found that we are getting V17 SP2 in the next couple of days
and I'm going to do a wine install and report all the errors. I'll take a
look at the bugs too.

Mike