I have just tried out a series of apps on Wine Linux Slackware 8.0 on one side, Win98 on the other. Most fail. Here is a list: Cindex (indexing program) SKY index (indexing program) Framemaker (typesetting program) Quark Xpress (typesetting program.) Let me take the last item as a simple example. I get a long list of messages as follows: -------------------------------------------------------- bash-2.05# wine QuarkXPress.exe FIXME:pthread_rwlock_rdlock FIXME:pthread_rwlock_unlock Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A: fixme:accel:CreateAcceleratorTableA should check that the accelerator descriptions are valid, return NULL and SetLastError() if not. Warning: /usr/local/bin/winedbg.exe not accessible from a configured DOS drive Warning: /usr/local/bin/winedbg not accessible from a configured DOS drive Warning: /usr/local/bin/winedbg 134638576.exe not accessible from a configured DOS drive Warning: /usr/local/bin/winedbg 134638576 not accessible from a configured DOS drive Warning: /usr/local/bin/winedbg 134638576 212.exe not accessible from a configured DOS drive Warning: /usr/local/bin/winedbg 134638576 212 not accessible from a configured DOS drive err:seh:start_debugger Couldn't start debugger (/usr/local/bin/winedbg 134638576 212) (2) Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another debugger ----------------------------------------------------- Of course there is no document titled ``Wine Developers Guide'' on my system as far as I can tell. Perhaps it has another title. /usr/local/bin/winedbg is a link to /usr/local/bin/wine, and executable. This was a short list. The list from some programs is much longer. I am asking two questions. 1. How do I identify (from the messages) a program that is likely never to run under Wine? 2. How do I eliminate the debug-specific messages such as all those above? John Culleton
ppmdOn 15 Nov 2001 07:18:12 -0800, john@wexfordpress.com (John Culleton) wrote:>Of course there is no document titled ``Wine Developers Guide'' on my >system as far as I can tell. Perhaps it has another title.Yes, that's the Wine gurus at work. Wine documentation is in a subdirectory called 'documentation' You need to build it first, by entering this directory and typing 'make'. Then you browse the directory wine-doc below the documentation directory, using your favourite web browser. <snip>>1. How do I identify (from the messages) a program that is likely >never to run under Wine?No idea, that's difficult to answer. If you have an app that relies on features that are badly supported, it will not run soon. Typesetting applications are very unlikely to run very well because of partial implementation of some features (dynamic load of font do not work, for example)>2. How do I eliminate the debug-specific messages such as all those >above? >Most are coming of the absence of any kind of configuration on this Wine installation (config file in the ~/.wine directory) Gerard