On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Even when I install MSVCR80.dll from a Windows machine into > > ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32System32 it does not work. > > It's designed not to. You simply cannot copy msvcr80.dll > into plain old windows/system32. It aborts if you do. > You have to use the installer, which is what winetricks does. > > Just as a general question, if all of this winetricks stuff is required to run so many programs, and I think it is as almost nothing I've ever wanted to run ran fine just installing it, then why isn't whatever winetricks does part of the Wine install process? If it's a matter of Wine not shipping M$ dll's and such, which I can understand, then why doesn't the Wine installer tell us to go get a certain set of dll's, put them in some location, and then use them? I continue to feel that Wine handcuffs itself with all of these problems. Just curious and ONLY my view as an end-user type. Thanks, Mark
