[Wine] Running XP programs in wine

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 22:45:49 CST 2008


> >
> >>  If that doesn't work, try:
> >>  $ mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.old
> >>  $ wineprefixcreate
> >>
> >
> > What's this? wineprefixcreate?
> >
> >
> This creates a new .wine folder.  Running wine notepad will do the same
> thing from the wine bin directory.
>

Starting from a new wine install and no .wine folder.
I ran wineprefixcreate
and then winetricks and selected vcrun2005 and that installed the correct file:

# ls msvc*
msvcm80.dll  msvcp80.dll  msvcr80.dll  msvcrt.dll
localhost system32 #

I am running wine-0.9.55 on x86_64 gentoo.
John



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