[Wine] Problem installing/running program

Brian Alexander bpalex at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 01:17:00 CDT 2011


Had a similar problem with a program for my son's school - they had an old
laptop running Vista on 512Mb of ram (don't get me started)
Linux was the logical answer, and the only program I couldn't substitute was the
school management software STMS.  

Initially Wine was no help.  After a good bit of research I found the OCX and
DLL's that weren't registering depended on some other DLL's, namely Microsoft
Foundation Classes 4.0 and 4.2.

Easiest way I know how to explain how to figure out what is missing is to follow
these instructions:

* open the "Browse C: Drive" option on your Linux (or whatever Mac OS
equivalent) menu and drag all the installation to a folder on C:

* from a terminal window enter "wine cmd"

* 'CD' to the installation folder and type whatever command starts the
installation - Usually "setup"

* the install will pop up in the GUI, but a stream of messages will appear in
the terminal. Some are critical, some aren't (these usually say 'fixme')  You're
looking for something like: 

err:module:import_dll Library MFC40.DLL (which is needed by
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\Pdqcom32.ocx") not found

* in the above case (assuming you already have winetricks installed) finish the
install and type 'exit' to get back to the native terminal - not C:> - and type
"sh winetricks mfc40"  Some OS's may omit the "sh" depending on how winetricks
was installed.





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