wine users - Jul 2009 - because vm86 mode is not supported on this platform.

Hi there,

  I have not been able to find a definite answer on my current issue.
If I try to run nmake on my debian/amd64 bits machine, within a 32bits
chroot system, (and thus 32bits wine) I still get this error:


Z:\home\mathieu>nmake15.exe
wine: Cannot start DOS application "Z:\\home\\mathieu\\nmake15.exe"
Z:\home\mathieu>
  because vm86 mode is not supported on this platform.


Ref:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8417&iTestingId=13360

Using:
debian version 5.0.2
wine 1.0.24, debian package
schroot : 1.2.2

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>   I have not been able to find a definite answer on my current issue.
> If I try to run nmake on my debian/amd64 bits machine, within a 32bits
> chroot system, (and thus 32bits wine) I still get this error:
>
>
> Z:\home\mathieu>nmake15.exe
> wine: Cannot start DOS application
"Z:\\home\\mathieu\\nmake15.exe"
> Z:\home\mathieu>
>   because vm86 mode is not supported on this platform.
>
>
> Ref:
>
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8417&iTestingId=13360
>
> Using:
> debian version 5.0.2
> wine 1.0.24, debian package
> schroot : 1.2.2
>
> Thanks,
>   
This happens because your CPU is still in 64-bit mode. Any Intel/AMD 
processor cannot use vm86 once the cpu is in 64-bit mode. The only way 
to run 16-bit applications on a 64-bit OS is emulation software such as 
DOSBox.

Thomas Jepp

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Thomas Jepp<wine-users at tomjepp.co.uk>
wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> ?I have not been able to find a definite answer on my current issue.
>> If I try to run nmake on my debian/amd64 bits machine, within a 32bits
>> chroot system, (and thus 32bits wine) I still get this error:
>>
>>
>> Z:\home\mathieu>nmake15.exe
>> wine: Cannot start DOS application
"Z:\\home\\mathieu\\nmake15.exe"
>> Z:\home\mathieu>
>> ?because vm86 mode is not supported on this platform.
>>
>>
>> Ref:
>>
>>
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8417&iTestingId=13360
>>
>> Using:
>> debian version 5.0.2
>> wine 1.0.24, debian package
>> schroot : 1.2.2
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> This happens because your CPU is still in 64-bit mode. Any Intel/AMD
> processor cannot use vm86 once the cpu is in 64-bit mode. The only way to
> run 16-bit applications on a 64-bit OS is emulation software such as
DOSBox.
Excellent ! Running dosbox I could extract nmake15.exe which was:

$ file nmake15.exe
nmake15.exe: Self-extracting PKZIP archive MS-DOS executable, MZ for
MS-DOS, PKLITE compressed, ZIP self-extracting archive

Then I can simply used the extracted nmake.exe under wine as usual :)

C:\>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

NMAKE : fatal error U1064: MAKEFILE not found and no target specified
Stop.


Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu
http://mathieumalaterre.com