wine users - Aug 2003 - where does regedit want to put the registry file?

Hi, 

I browsed the list for recent mail messages about problems similar to
mine, but I could not find any. 

I compiled wine, version 20030709, and I have gcc version 3.3.1

Testing my wine configuration, it fails test 28 and 29 (registry
errors). I tried regedit /usr/local/wine/winedefault.reg (both as user
and as superuser), but test 28 and 29 still fail. It looks like the
registry is not written.

If it would be written, in which directory would it be, and what would
be the name of the file? Or is something else going wrong (wrong gcc,
wrong X, wrong kernel?)

Thanks!
Alle Meije

Look in your home directory, in the hidden .wine dir, you can't miss it.

> hidden .wine dir, you can't miss it.
Yes, it's there. It was already there before I ran regedit, I think,
because tools/wineinstall does all these things automatically. 

But what is the matter then? I appear to have a registry in ~/.wine, yet
when I run winecheck, it says that there are two errors related to the
registry:

##
029. Checking availability of winedefault.reg entries...    CRITICAL
(entry "SHAREDMEMLOCATION" not found in system.reg registry file).
- ADVICE: file winedefault.reg doesn't seem to have been applied using
regapi.

030. Checking availability of windows registry entries...   CRITICAL
(entry "Default Taskbar" not found).
- ADVICE: Windows registry does not seem to be added to Wine, as this
typical Windows registry entry does not exist in Wine's registry. This
can affect many newer programs. A complete original Windows registry
entry set will *not* be available with a no-windows install, of course,
so you'll have to live with that..
##

This seems to indicate that there is a registry, but wine can't find it.
I installed wine mainly for using matlab (and, required for matlab, the
sun java sdk). Both installations fail because of errors processing the
registry. So it seems that just running programs/regedit
.winedefault.reg is not enough? Has anybody else had this problem, and
is there a sensible solution?

Alle Meije Wink

Wine has a very minimal registry, but winedefault.reg adds lots of needed
entries. If regedit winedefault.reg doesn't work, try starting regedit and
importing the file manually using the import registry  file function in the
registry menu.

Maybe a problem with the new gui regedit. Try downloading winedefault from here,
using linux (Downloading text with windows can cause problems)
http://digilander.libero.it/winehqitalia/download/winedefault.reg

Hi,
> Wine has a very minimal registry, but winedefault.reg adds lots of 
> needed entries. If regedit winedefault.reg doesn't work, try starting 
> regedit and importing the file manually using the import registry  
> file function in the registry menu.
I somehow managed (by doing everything as root, despite wine's advice)
to start up with the registry editor, and save my registry to a file. Ik
I use that file for system.reg in my ~/.wine directory, I at least have
a SHAREDMEMLOCATION in my registry.

But every time I restart wine, or run $WINEDIR/tools/winecheck, it gives
the same error: no SHAREDMEMLOCATION key in the registry. What's more,
it starts complaining that /mnt/fd0 does not exist on my system. It
doesn't actually, but I changed that in my ~/.wine/config (to /floppy,
which does exist and is writable).

It seems that wine overrides my painstakingly carefully edited config
fies and put some sort of wine defaults in their place. What is the
answer to this: editing the defaults or something? And if so, where are
they?

I think these errors are also the cause for me not being able to install
either Sun J2SDK or JBuilder (Microsoft Java I didn't, and won't, try)

Regards
Alle Meije

For the floppy problem, try creating a link from /mnt/floppy to /floppy
For the registry problem, you can try this
Delete all the reg files in .wine
Install wine-20030709
run regedit winedefault.reg
upgrade to wine-current
It isn't a great solution but it's probably the quickest one.

Hi Dan,

I hope you have your problem solved by now. In case you haven't, you 
might try the following.

Check to see that it didn't actually work first. You should have a 
fairly large system.reg and user.reg in ~/.wine (on the order of 5Mb 
and 1Mb, respectively) -- my userdef.reg has always been quite small. 
If the files are not there, are very small, or if you get back an error 
when you try to run something that the registry is not correct, I've 
found the following to always work.

When adding the registry (using regedit winedefault.reg), change 
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y" to "N" in
~/.wine/config with a Linux text
editor. After running regedit (and it may still give an error message), 
you need to change "SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" back to "Y".
I've found that
ensures that regedit will install winedefault.reg correctly every time. 
You don't need to be root to do it.

deedee

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:12:08 -0700
From: Dan Sawyer 
To: "puoti@inwind.it"
CC: wine-users
Subject: Re: where does regedit want to put the registry file?

All,

wine regedit winedefault.reg results in the error message:

cannot import winedefault.reg file is not a registry script

What does this mean?

What is the proper procedure to setup system.reg?

Thanks,
Dan

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