Tim Richardson <te.richardson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I find the documentation very confusing about how to install native > DLLs, which native DLLs to install and where to put them. Some of the > advice is contradictory. How: Put them either into windows\system32 or into the applications directory. Add an appropriate override in winecfg. Which: It depends. > I have wine 0.9.17 on Ubuntu 6.06 > I see in the system32 a number of DLLs are installed. > Are these the only copy of the builtin DLLs that wine has? No. They are merely fakes to satisfy programs which look for the DLLs by looking for the files. > Next question: somewhere in a howto on the website, there is a hint the > wine is much better at Windows 98 APIs than NT APIs, so the suggestion > was to use Win 98 native DLLs. Yet the default Windows emulation is > Windows 2000, and it is much easier for me to find Win XP DLLs. So what > should I do? I'd guess this hint is outdated. There is a reason the default is the default. > Is there a tutorial somewhere based on a real example, showing how to > find which native DLLs make all the difference between success and > failure? An easy way is to look at the error messages and replace the corresponding DLL. Of course sometimes this is not so easy. appdb.winehq.org contains a lot of wisdom on individual programs. Daniel _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
