wine users - Mar 2001 - General tweaking tips for wine?

Does anyone have any general tips on how to get programs to work on Wine? I 
hear lots of success stories for various programs which I have failed to 
get working on my own machine. But then again, my own version of wine is a 
bog-standard installation without any special adjustments made to it.

What are the steps usually taken to attempt to get a program to run under 
Wine? Or is that too difficult a question to answer since it depends on the 
program?

Thanks,

Terence.

That's how I did it:
Check the output from wine and see which dll's cause trouble. Replace those
dll's with original MS dll's. Change your wine configuration. (Switch
from
buildin to native for the particular dll.) Iterate on this process.

-M

PS.: I should note, that I am not a programmer. So debugging the wine source
code seems to be no option for me. I know that simply replacing the dll's
does
not help further development efforts. But I am not sure how ele I could do that.
Sorry.

Terence Parker wrote:
> Does anyone have any general tips on how to get programs to work on Wine? I
> hear lots of success stories for various programs which I have failed to
> get working on my own machine. But then again, my own version of wine is a
> bog-standard installation without any special adjustments made to it.
>
> What are the steps usually taken to attempt to get a program to run under
> Wine? Or is that too difficult a question to answer since it depends on the
> program?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terence.
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:45:38 +0000, Terence Parker <tcpman@email.com>
wrote:
>What are the steps usually taken to attempt to get a program to run under 
>Wine? Or is that too difficult a question to answer since it depends on the 
>program?
>
Beside fiddling with dll loadorder, you can also *install* the
app under Wine. If install does not work, you can try to
use regedit on a real window installation to export the
needed registry entries and import them back in Wine
with regapi. It's involved but sometimes it helps a lot.

Gerard