--- wine <wine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hiji wrote: > > >>does - is there anyway > >>to get either of these apps running in Wine? > Thanks > >>in advance, > >> > >> > > > >Hi Dunc, > > > >I think you're using Wine in an incorrect way. You > >need to use REAL DLLs ... not the Wine DLL > >equivalents. You should read up on Wine a bit more > >regarding how it is configured: > >http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/config-wine-main > > > >Also, you should see if your apps are listed in the > >database. If they are, you can see what people did > to > >get them working, or if they had no luck making > them > >work: > >http://appdb.winehq.org > > > > > While I do have licensed copies of just about all > versions of Windows I > see this in the Wine documentation that you pointed > me to: "A major > goal of Wine is to allow users to run Windows > programs without having to > install Windows on their machine. Wine implements > the functionality of > the main DLLs usually provided with Windows. > Therefore, once Wine is > finished, you will not need to have Windows > installed to use Wine." > > That being said / read I was able to get my first > application (Cadkit or > Ckpp.exe) running by copying the real Windows 2K > ddeml.dll into the > system directory. The other application (KOPS.exe) > still isn't > co-operating with Wine, nor is it complaining about > any specific file > that I can copy into my Wine directory to help make > things better. It's > still saying: "fixme:actctx:CreateActCtxW stub", > followed by a whole > mess of "err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!" > messages. Does > anyone know what Wine is trying to tell me and how I > might go about > overcoming the problem? Thanks, > > Dunc Great job on making progress! :) You might want to check around www.frankscorner.org as well, do a Google search on the error messages, or a do Google search on "[application name] Wine". Sometimes, after much trial and error, one must throw in the towel and realize that Wine just can't [yet] support the app. :) But keep trying... Hijinio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
