we often say here directx installation can break wine What about Dan kegel winetricks ? It is safe to install microsoft distribuable package or it may break wine ? What we can do, what we can't ? For exemple, when wine console tell us msvcr80.dll is missing, what is better or safer: - installing vcrun2005 via winetricks - copy the missing downloaded dll in system32 ? the both works for my particular case of course Thank you
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, chourmovs <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> we often say here directx installation can break wine > What about Dan kegel winetricks ? > It is safe to install microsoft distribuable package or it may break wine ? > > What we can do, what we can't ? > > For exemple, when wine console tell us msvcr80.dll is missing, what is better or safer: > > - installing vcrun2005 via winetricks > - copy the missing downloaded dll in system32 ? >Probably copying it from a windows directory or extracting the runtime from the installer and copying that... (Probaly to the program folder in a separate WINEPREFIX as well if you are really paranoid...) I think the (non-DirectX) redistributables is probably a bad example, as it is necessary to install them on Windows as well... You have no way of knowing that the downloaded DLL is not virus infected... WINEPREFIXes really make the damage of a mistake a lot less... You might get quite a decent trusted, safe DLL collection by installing everything into a separate WINEPREFIX with winetricks and copying all the DLL files before deleting it... Gert
Hi!> we often say here directx installation can break wine > What about Dan kegel winetricks ? > It is safe to install microsoft distribuable package or it may break wine ?As I understand it, winetricks is just a script, which simplifies installation of various third-party components onto wine directory. It doesn't add anything by itself, so it cannot make any harm. You can freely selects which particular packages to install and which not, winetrick is not doing anything withoud your knowledge. With regards, Pavel Troller> > What we can do, what we can't ? > > For exemple, when wine console tell us msvcr80.dll is missing, what is better or safer: > > - installing vcrun2005 via winetricks > - copy the missing downloaded dll in system32 ? > > the both works for my particular case of course > > Thank you > > > >
chourmovs wrote:> we often say here directx installation can break wine > What about Dan kegel winetricks ? >Same, it can break or make some programs work. It really depends on each individual program. Don't loose the Wine's objective - no windows required to run windows programs. Remember that to install most m$' redistributables you need a valid windows license.