[Wine] Total noob question: Wine runs .exe but nothing happens.

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:23 PM, MacFall <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Ok, first I did this:
>> wine VisualBoyAdvance.exe
>
> and got back this:
>> wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe"
>
>
> So I moved the file from the Downloads folder into the system32 folder in Wine's virtual C drive because it's obviously looking for it there. But when I tried again, this:
>> wine VisualBoyAdvance.exe
>> err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe") not found
>> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe" failed, status c0000135
>

winetricks vc6

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

then repeat the
wine VisualBoyAdvance.exe

make sure you do not do any of this as root, su or sudo.

Also you can look for the app in appdb.winehq.org and see if there is
any hints to get it working.

John