[Wine] using Winetools with wine 1.1.2

[Gert van den Berg]

For many of the things that you may / may not need, winetricks helps....

See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks for instructions on getting
winetricks and on how to use it.

It might be a good idea to play in a different WINEPREFIX. To do that
simply prepend all wine and winetricks commands with your alternaticve
WINEPREFIX.

e.g.
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-deplhi-apps wine somecommand.exe

It is probably a better to try the applications on a clean wine first.
(And if not done already report bugs for issues). Try to use the
minimum amount of tweaking necessary to get the apps to run.

The runtimes (mfc / vcrun, vb runtime, etc. might be the only tweaks
really neccesary for many apps)

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:53 AM, R. S. Patil <kpr.rspatil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well Then What to use Instead,
>
> A "howto" for running delphi programs under wine
> mentions to install following
>
> 1> Base Setup (Notes As Follows)
>     Select the option Create a fake Windows drive and confirm,
>     answer YES to the question Remove existing Wine configuration?.
>     Click the OK button to confirm the path of the CD ROM in /etc/fstab
>     (or change it, if this isn't correct) and to answer the questions What's
>     your username? and What's your organization? you can fill in some
>     information, like, user and home (if necessary the information can be
>     changed in the file /~wine/system.reg). Wait for the confirmation Fake
>     Windows drive created in ~/.wine. Click in the OK button again and
>     wait for the Base Setup menu of WineTools.
>
>     The last procedure has created our Fake, with certain changes created
>     when Wine is started. These changes may be altered using WineCfg and
>     regedit. Some changes may be, for example, certain file entries in ~/.wine
>     /*.reg and some files in the directory ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32.
>    Our Fake is (or should be!) prepared to be a Windows 98, the best to
>    run our applications."
>
> 2> DCOM98.
>
Try applications without it first. If you really need to install it:
winetricks dcom98
> 3> Microsoft foundation Classes 4.x
>
The Visual C++ runtime includes MFC 4.2:
winetricks vcrun60

else:
winetricks mfc40
winetricks mfc42

> 4> Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
>     Which will install almost all components of IE6 and Media Player 6.4
>
In most cases it is not necessary to install (on a recent wine)...

You might first try:
winetricks fakeie6

If you really need to install IE 6:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=469 or
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
> 5> Windows Installer
>
Most MSI installers work out of the box with a recent Wine.

http://wiki.winehq.org/msiexec provides some details on how to use it.

If you really need to install MSI 2.0:
winetricks msi2

> 6> Visual Basic 6 Runtime
>
winetricks vb6run
> 7> Visual C++ run-time English
>
(6 is described with MFC, I'm not sure if 2005sp1 installs 2005 SP1 or
updates 2005 to SP1....)

winetricks vcrun2003
winetricks vcrun2005
winetricks vcrun2008

> 8> MDAC 2.8 and Jet 4.0 SP8 English
>
winetricks mdac28
winetricks jet40

> 9>  Microsoft TrueType core fonts (Notes as Follows)
>      Now let's install the Microsoft TrueType core fonts. Go to the WineTools
>      Base Setup menu, select the option True Type Font Arial, click OK,
>      wait for the download to complete, accept the license terms and finish
>      the installation of this font family. After this, select the
> option Install
>      Microsoft TrueType core fonts the third option in the WineTools
>      Main Menu and proceed with the installation of all available fonts
>      in the same way.
>
wintricks corefonts

OR

winetricks allfonts