[Linux-disciples] installing windows programs on linux

[Adam Kessel]

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:58:12PM -0800, Karl Sokol wrote:
> Adam responded:
> >>>...copying Windows DLL files into your WINE
> installation....  
> Where should I put them?  How do I get bibleworks to
> see them.  

bibleworks doesn't need to see them, only WINE does.  bibleworks thinks
it's running under Windows, and it's WINE's job to make that illusion
totally convincing.

At least on a Debian system, the DLL's would go in

~/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/System

You should see a bunch of 0 byte DLLs in there to start. You can copy the
files over from your Windows partition from /windows/system and /windows.

You also have to tell WINE when you'd prefer for it to use Windows DLLs
over the builtin ones developed by the WINE project. You can do this
per-program, or for the whole installation.  You should have a command
winesetup with a GUI for configuring WINE.

Under Advanced, there is a category DLLs.  You can there specify
preferences for builtin (the WINE ones) versus native (the Microsoft
ones)

You might also check out the WINE FAQ if you haven't:

http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-faq/index

> The exact message I get is:
> --Start--
> Error Number 0x80040706
> Description: Object reference not set
> Setup will now terminate.
> --End--

Another possibility is that a newer version of WINE would work better.
WINE improves rapidly.  I don't think SuSE has the multi-tiered
distribution system as Debian, so there may not be an easy way to upgrade
to a more recent version, but you could try downloading updated packages
from sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=79444

> >>>>(2) Are there free equivalents of what you
> currently are running under Windows?  
> I am still looking at your other suggestions.
> Sword etc. aren't at the level that I need yet.

If there are specific features that are missing from the free software
versions, you might want to file wishlist bugs, or see if the developers
are already working on them.  Also perhaps see if more recent development
versions support the functionality you're looking for.

> suse does not seem to have crossover-office.

Ah.  I thought if you bought SuSE it came packaged with Crossover Office,
but maybe that's only certain versions.

> Not much luck with shared NTFS (disastrous experiment
> with part*** ma**c, but i recovered).  But this is
> more of a novelty than a necessity.

Hm.  You could, of course, make your Windows Partition just FAT32, and
then have completely transparent access from Windows and Linux.
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org