Max i read the followings lines but i'm a very newbie... I don't know hot to apply patches and how to rebuilt wine so.. can you do (if you can) for all as of version of wine that runs smoothly Autocad 2008?? > > from: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9306&iTestingId=20867 > by Massimo on Wednesday June 18th 2008, 11:13 > Just follow the tutorial and you'll see that it installs. > Don't work on unpatched wine, you must get source code and apply 2 patches to have it working. > > See following bugs : > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13599 > (apply latest patch, the OpenGL one) > > and > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13838 > > Rebuild wine, install it and then : > 1) Start with a clean wine prefix > 2) Use winetricks to install dotnet 2.0 AND msxml3 (and maybe corefonts) > 3) Grab inside some XP installation the shlwapi.dll > 4) With winecfg set it as native > 5) install Autocad, it will go all flawlessy. > > That one for 2005; if you want to test 2008, with winetricks install gdiplus too. But that one has many more caveats... > > Max > grazie max!! :D