wine users - Dec 2008 - perl-web-script should start a application with wine

I need some help.

I have a windows application which load a file, do something and put the output
in the same file. This tool is called ct.exe. Now I use wine to start this
application, everything works fine.

My problem starts if a try to write a perlscript which start this wine
application.

my perl script:
  1 #!/usr/bin/perl
  2
  3 use strict;
  4 use CGI;
  5 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
  6
  7 my $cgi = new CGI;
  8 my $html = q();
  9
 10 print  $cgi->header(q(text/html));
 11 print  $cgi->start_html(-title => q(lustiger wine test)),
 12        $cgi->h1(q( is not an Emulator)),
 13 my $output = exec("wine /usr/share/weblicgen/bin/ct.exe
 14 -open /usr/share/weblicgen/bin/coreTechLeer.lic ");
 15 print "$output";
 16        $cgi->end_html();
 17 print $html;

Error_log:
191 [error] [client 10.113.201.215] fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could
not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT"
192 [error] [client 10.113.201.215] Application tried to create a window, but no
driver could be loaded.
193 [error] [client 10.113.201.215] Make sure that your X server is running and
that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
194 [error] [client 10.113.201.215] Application tried to create a window, but no
driver could be loaded.
195[error] [client 10.113.201.215] Make sure that your X server is running and
that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
196 [error] [client 10.113.201.215] err:module:attach_process_dlls
"MSVCR80.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
197 [error] [client 10.113.201.215] err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe
initialization for L"Z:    
>\\\\usr\\\\share\\\\weblicgen\\\\bin\\\\ct-licensegenerator.exe"
failed, status c0000142

Note: If I type: perl webscript.pl, then It works. If I write this script as a
normal perlscript without using it from a browser, then it works too.

Can someone help me?

Most likely there are two things. First of all msvcrt80.dll could be missing.
Second as the error says no display driver can be found (wine's x11 driver).
A lot of apps even if they appear commandline only require a display driver
because they require functionality from it while they aren't showing a
window themselves.

Likely when you were executing the script by hand you had a display variable
set, so that winex11.drv could be loaded.

Thank you for the answer.

Unfortunately the msvcrt80.dll is in /var/www/ (which should be the home
directory for apache) and a web application is not able to start a x server ? Am
I right?

Andreasus wrote:
> How can I install vc2005 ?

Code:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun2005


See this for more details: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

works fine. Thanks.

Problem solved