MacFall
2010-Sep-16 17:43 UTC
[Wine] Total noob question: Wine runs .exe but nothing happens.
I am a fairly new Ubuntu user. I just started using Wine and I'm trying to install a program. I downloaded the install file, set the permissions so it would run as an executable, and opened it in Wine. It opens a new button in the taskbar that says "opening [program].exe", which runs for a few seconds - and then, nothing happens. Halp?
John Drescher
2010-Sep-16 17:50 UTC
[Wine] Total noob question: Wine runs .exe but nothing happens.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:43 PM, MacFall <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I am a fairly new Ubuntu user. I just started using Wine and I'm trying to install a program. I downloaded the install file, set the permissions so it would run as an executable, and opened it in Wine. It opens a new button in the taskbar that says "opening [program].exe", which runs for a few seconds - and then, nothing happens. > > Halp? >Run it in the terminal. Post the debug messages. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a37de3282d447376d2220d20a278ae52258551a4 John
MacFall
2010-Sep-16 18:23 UTC
[Wine] Re: Total noob question: Wine runs .exe but nothing happens.
Ok, first I did this:> wine VisualBoyAdvance.exeand got back this:> wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe"So I moved the file from the Downloads folder into the system32 folder in Wine's virtual C drive because it's obviously looking for it there. But when I tried again, this:> wine VisualBoyAdvance.exe > err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe") not found > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\VisualBoyAdvance.exe" failed, status c0000135
DaVince
2010-Sep-17 08:19 UTC
[Wine] Re: Total noob question: Wine runs .exe but nothing happens.
> So I moved the file from the Downloads folder into the system32 folder in Wine's virtual C drive because it's obviously looking for it there.Don't do this. It's only looking in system32 as a last resort because it's not in your current directory. Instead, use "cd" to navigate to VisualBoyAdvance.exe's location instead (like cd $HOME/Downloads/).