wine users - Sep 2010 - Total noob question: Wine runs .exe but nothing happens.

I am a fairly new Ubuntu user. I just started using Wine and I'm trying to
install a program. I downloaded the install file, set the permissions so it
would run as an executable, and opened it in Wine. It opens a new button in the
taskbar that says "opening [program].exe", which runs for a few
seconds - and then, nothing happens.

Halp?

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:43 PM, MacFall <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I am a fairly new Ubuntu user. I just started using Wine and I'm trying
to install a program. I downloaded the install file, set the permissions so it
would run as an executable, and opened it in Wine. It opens a new button in the
taskbar that says "opening [program].exe", which runs for a few
seconds - and then, nothing happens.
>
> Halp?
>
Run it in the terminal. Post the debug messages.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a37de3282d447376d2220d20a278ae52258551a4

John

Ok, first I did this:
> wine VisualBoyAdvance.exe
and got back this:
> wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe"

So I moved the file from the Downloads folder into the system32 folder in
Wine's virtual C drive because it's obviously looking for it there. But
when I tried again, this:
> wine VisualBoyAdvance.exe
> err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe") not found
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe" failed, status c0000135

> So I moved the file from the Downloads folder into the system32 folder in
Wine's virtual C drive because it's obviously looking for it there.
Don't do this. It's only looking in system32 as a last resort because
it's not in your current directory. Instead, use "cd" to navigate
to VisualBoyAdvance.exe's location instead (like cd $HOME/Downloads/).