[Wine] Visual C++ installation Help?

[John Drescher]

> Well, I couldn't find a way to launch the .bat file, but I opened it and found a simple command to activate the Expand app.
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> I copied it out, ran it and the .cab segments were assembled and installed.
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> But nothing came of it, the same issue I had with using Crossover:
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> I can't find an executable to run in the install directory.  which has me puzzled.
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> Has anybody used Visual C++ ?
>

I have had some success building C++ applications from the VS 2005
version that is/was in winetricks. However I never tried to install
the platform sdk.

John