I've read through some archives on the users mailing list and found some answers to getting Wine 20020122 going. I didn't have to change much with the default way tools/wineinstall. Here's my questions 1) Does Wine run programs that live in a native Windows XP vfat partition using the native dlls? 2) Does Wine run Office XP, even if it is buggy? 3) Can it run programs such as Propellerheads' Reason? I am currently running Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.4.18-pre3. My system is running great. It lives on half of the hard drive, while my WIndows XP Professional lives on the other half of the hard drive. I would like to be able to run Outlook XP (Just because we have Exchange here at work :(... Exchange is junk, if you ask me). I have wine running using my /mnt/windows vfat mount as the C:\. I have modified my ~/.wine/config to reflect my C:\Documents and Settings\Joe\ user Profile and added some PATH arguments to include. But besides that, I haven't done much with the wine setup. If I run wine "C:\\Program Files\\mirc\\mirc32.exe"& it will run mirc32.exe very quickly. It then allows me to connect to IRC and join some channels. It then freezes after about 30 seconds. I normally use KVirc for IRC in linux, which I prefer actually, but I am just testing wine at this point. Eventually I will try to get games going. I know I have a few questions here, but whatever help anyone can give is appreciated. Thanks in advance, Joe Hoot
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Joseph R. Hoot wrote:> I've read through some archives on the users mailing list and found some > answers to getting Wine 20020122 going. I didn't have to change much > with the default way tools/wineinstall. Here's my questions > > 1) Does Wine run programs that live in a native Windows XP vfat > partition using the native dlls? >Wine _cannot_ use native dll's for anything important (kernel/ntdll/gdi/user). It will _try_ to use those native dll's the Wine Administrator tells it to use in $WINEPREFIX/.config [DllOverrides]. IMO this is reasonable: [DllOverrides] "msvcrt" = "native, builtin, so" "*" = "builtin, so, native" You will probably not have much success with XP native dll's, but YMMV. With Windows, newer is nastier. Nasty is just what they do. Wine does not give a squirrel's tush if you have an XP native partition or not. It is just another branch in the linux virtual filesystem tree to Wine, which is after all just a big hairy *NIX application program and library.> > Thanks in advance, > Joe Hoot > >Lawson ---oof--- ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.