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Hi, I’m trying to get a VFP6 runtime app working a well as
possible in WINE. Whilst I have a number of years of Linux experience, I’m
new to WINE. I’ve googled a fair bit on
this, but references to VFP on WINE all seem to be from 2003, and a lot must
have happened since then. Can anyone point me to a RECENT howto
addressing some of the problems I might face and workarounds for these? Specifically the fonts suck, and as Truetype
Fonts in Linux are now better established, I’m wanting to build in proper
substitutions rather than install the M$ fonts. So far, with very basic testing the APP seems to work fairly
well on a deb install of wine 0.9.1, with no crashes
IF: I put the
following native dll’s into ~/drive_c/windows/system32:: Oleacc.dll, gdi32.dll, user32.dll The latter two are according to the
documentation a very bad idea as they access the windows kernel directly, but
failing to have them there results in the app not starting and VFP complaining
that it can’t load them.There must be something
basic I’m not getting here. I must start the
app from its install directory thussly: [App Install Directory prompt]$ wine [app].exe attempts to start from somewhere else, eg: ~/$ wine “C:\Program Files\[app directory]\app.exe” result in the executable
being found, but on startup it looks in the folder
from which I ran the command for all dependent resources. The same thing happens if I try to use
the desktop launcher links which the application installer placed on my desktop
and wine menus (app looks in my home directory). Using the winefile
explorer and clicking on the app works fine, however. This must be a vary basic mistake in my wine setup. There is a plethora of tools available for setting up wine,
all available in apt with the debian and winehq repositories in my apt sources.lst. I suspect that some of these are not current, and may mess
up my wine configuration. I abandoned wine-tools 3.0.9 fairly early on after
the application installed under drive_c whilst all my
configuration attempts suggested I was using fake_windows
as my wine root. Here is a copy of my current ~/.wine/config Cheers Marius |
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