Hello ppl. Im trying to install an aplication and for some reason ir says. "Cannot get enviorment variables" I spoke with the developer and he told me that it is because i dont have microsoft DAC installed. I installed it and the problem persists. I need to know how to see which ENV vars the software wants in order to create them. It is not a wine problem because I get the same error instaling in a XP Home edition Thanks for the help in advance pedro.m.ferreira at gmail.com
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, xekhz <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Im trying to install an aplication and for some reason ir says. > "Cannot get enviorment variables" > I spoke with the developer and he told me that it is because i dont have microsoft DAC installed. > I installed it and the problem persists. > I need to know how to see which ENV vars the software wants in order to create them. > > It is not a wine problem because I get the same error instaling in a XP Home editionWhat Windows version does the app install on properly? Figuring out why an installer is unhappy is a bit of an art. Mostly, we use log files to do that. So, for example, get the installer to fail WINEDEBUG=+text,+file,+reg,+relay wine setup.exe > /tmp/log.txt 2>&1 Then look at the log file, search for the error message, and then read backwards and try to guess which failed call might have triggered the error. It's not always easy! - Dan
With the help of Dan Kegel, the problem was solved.
In the relay log, the files
c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/services
c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
Must exist.
A simple touch ~/c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/{services,host}
did the trick
Thanks Dan
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:58 AM, xekhz <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> A simple touch ~/c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/{services,host} > did the trickxekhz also wrote: "in windows Home edition and starter the problem was the same but in those i installed informix sdk 2.7 and problem solved" So perhaps this will help other Informix-based apps?
Dan Kegel wrote:> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:58 AM, xekhz <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > A simple touch ~/c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/{services,host} > > did the trick > > > > xekhz also wrote: > "in windows Home edition and starter the problem was the same > but in those i installed informix sdk 2.7 and problem solved" > > So perhaps this will help other Informix-based apps?Should probably add these files to Wine tree. "hosts" shouldn't need anything more then standard 127.0.0.1 localhost And services should be empty.