[Wine] Running XP programs in wine

[Dotan Cohen]

On 28/02/2008, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> 2008/2/28 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
>
> >  Winetricks does not leave me with a msvcr80.dll for any vcrun*
>  >  package. If I need to install the dll without winetricks, how can I do
>  >  that?
>
>
> You don't need to, and you shouldn't.  msvcr80 is a prickly
>  beast, it doesn't just want to be copied, it wants to be gently
>  placed in a specially named directory.  But fear not!  winetricks
>  installs it perfectly well.  Looky:
>
>  $ rm -rf .wine
>  $ sh winetricks vcrun2005
>  ...
>
> Install of vcrun2005 done
>  winetricks done.
>
> $ find .wine/drive_c -iname 'msvcr80*'
>
> .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msvcr80.dll
>
> .wine/drive_c/windows/winsxs/x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_0de06acd/msvcr80.dll
>
>  See?  Try exactly those steps and I bet you'll see it installed fine.

Yes, it did install. Only when I run vcrun2005 (not 2008 or SP1) and
that only on a fresh ~/.wine. Prickly it is. Thanks, Dan.

Dotan Cohen

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