So far, I haven't had to change any dll settings. Use the default installation unless you have a reason to change ( as in something doesn't work) Ian On Saturday 15 July 2006 18:43, Tim Richardson 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. > > 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? > Because the documentation says that when installing native DLLs, they > should best go into the system and/or system32 directory, in which case > some of the wine builtin DLLs would be overridden. If they are > over-ridden, then why would it be necessary to use winecfg to instruct > wine to use a native DLL? > > Actually the documentation refers only to the system directory but I > assume that the system32 directory would be the right place, if that is > the home of the native DLL in its native environment: am I correct? > > 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? > > 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? > > regards, > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
