wine users - Aug 2004 - You must copy a 'stdole32.tlb' file to your Windows\System directory!

My past post concerning using Wine on top of X.org version of X Windows I
resolved. My dosdevices directory was referencing an old directory, when I
thought it had be updated. Windows notepad.exe lives again!

My goal with Wine is to setup a program I purchased called Storyboard Quick
which runs on Windows 95 and above. I attempted to perform an install... two
questions exist here:

First, how are you supposed to perform an installation of a Windows program?
I copied the installation files to a directory within the path of the mapped C:\
drive (C:\storyboard) changed directory to it so that my current directory was
/home/steven/.wine/fake_windows/storyboard and executed:

wine InstallQuick.exe

How does the setup routine know that the current (mapped) directory is
C:\storyboard ???
Anyhow, I don't believe the setup routine cares, but this is the first time
I've tried it so I have no clue. Also, the setup file is that one file;
InstallQuick.exe, so it should be self contained without needing calls to
supporting CAB files.

The error that it produced was:

steven@www:~/.wine/fake_windows/storyboard$ wine InstallQuick.exe

**************************************************************************
You must copy a 'stdole32.tlb' file to your Windows\System directory!
You can get one from a Windows installation, or look for the DCOM95 package
on the Microsoft Download Pages.
**************************************************************************
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000b), starting debugger...
Usage: winedbg [--auto] [--gdb] cmdline

The second question; the config file for Wine declares Windows 98 environment.
Do I need to copy the stdole32.dll from my Windows 98 system on my laptop? or
will another Window > 3.x suffice?

I'd assume this file exists on my laptop since this program is installed
there. My work machine is a Windows XP and it has that file under
C:\windows\system32, will this one work?

Thanks for tolerating my newbie question.

> The second question; the config file for Wine declares Windows 98
environment.
Do I need to copy the stdole32.dll from my Windows 98 system on my laptop? or
will another Window > 3.x suffice?
If you have a win95 or above license, copy stdole.tlb to your fake
c:\windows\systen
>I'd assume this file exists on my laptop since this program is installed
there.
My work machine is a Windows XP and it has that file under C:\windows\system32,
will this one work? 
it should but you'll need a win xp license.

Ivan.

Understood, but this error occurred immediately when the InstallQuick.exe
started. I'm expecting that there will be a lot of messages. I guess what
I'm really asking is whether the fact that the Wine config file stating
Windows 98 if that means I should be getting the files it's
"missing" from a Windows 98 installation only?

----- Original Message -----
From: Ivan Leo Puoti <puoti@inwind.it>
Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2004 5:13 pm
Subject: Re: You must copy a 'stdole32.tlb' file to your Windows\System
directory!
> > The second question; the config file for Wine declares Windows 
> 98 environment.
> Do I need to copy the stdole32.dll from my Windows 98 system on my 
> laptop? or
> will another Window > 3.x suffice?
> If you have a win95 or above license, copy stdole.tlb to your fake 
> c:\windows\systen>I'd assume this file exists on my laptop since 
> this program is installed there.
> 
> My work machine is a Windows XP and it has that file under 
> C:\windows\system32,will this one work? 
> it should but you'll need a win xp license.
> 
> Ivan.
> 
>