Daniel Skorka wrote: > 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 I'd guess this hint is outdated.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 Daniel, thank you for your clear explanation. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
