wine users - Feb 2011 - Re: Error loading mfc42.dll - failed (error c000007b)

:) Hi experts, hi dimesio

Few days ago Wine/Birthday Reminders stopped to run. I suppose that it is a
consequence of an automatic updating of Ubuntu and I ask an advice on the best
way to solve the issue.

Consider that:
if I run the application clicking on it, as usual, I see the system working and
stopping after tens of seconds,
If I run the application by console, this is the code that I get

Code:
claudio @ Aspire-8530: ~ $ wine "c:\\Programmi\\Birthday
Reminder\\bday.exe"
The program "wine"can be found in the following packages:
* wine1.2
* wine1.0
Try: sudo apt-get install <package selected>



Consider also that Wine 1.3 is listed as loaded in Package Manager!

Claudio  :)

cpighin wrote:
> 
> If I run the application by console, this is the code that I get[/list]
> 
> Code:
> claudio @ Aspire-8530: ~ $ wine "c:\\Programmi\\Birthday
Reminder\\bday.exe"
> The program "wine"can be found in the following packages:
> * wine1.2
> * wine1.0
> Try: sudo apt-get install <package selected>
> 
> 
> 
> Consider also that Wine 1.3 is listed as loaded in Package Manager!
> 
Well, I'd try uninstalling then reinstalling Wine. If that doesn't fix
it, ask on your distro's support forum. This appears to be a package manager
issue.

:)  Thanks dimesio,

I did what suggested and now Birthday Remainder 1.60 works properly again and
this could confirm the hypothesis of a package manager issue as the cause of the
problem reported above.

For those interested, hereunder is the list of actions taken to run the
application.

1) Following this guide
(http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8a17a13a8a4cda9e12e24a1ad4e1b1aaf043d581) I
un-installed Birthday Remainder and Wine (not Winetricks) by Package Manager,
2) I installed wine1.3-8 by Package Manager (later I found that were installed:
wine1.3, wine1.3-gecko, winetricks).
3) I configured Wine by the graphic tool as follow:
   - Applications Tab> Predefined setting> Windows version: Windows 7
   - Drives Tab> "Automatically detect"
4) Than I tried to install Birthday Remainder 1.60 (bday_setu.exe) opening the
executable program in various ways without success. When I did it with the
console command "wine bday_setup.exe", I verified that the system
required a correct installation of the library MFC42.DLL. Note that in the past
this error occurred after the installation!
5) I installed the library MFC42.DLL with the command "winetricks"
(instead of "sh winetricks" since the package was jet installed)
followed by selection of the library in the list that was shown.
6) Than I had success on installing Birthday Reminder 1.60 by double-clicking on
the file "wine bday_setup.exe" on the desktop and I proved that the
application was running by console command and by one of the two dedicated
launchers within Wine.
7) In order to run Birthday Reminder in Ubuntu environment referring to the same
file as in Windows, I created a symbolic link to
/media/ACER_WIN7/Users/claudio/Dati applicazioni/Zhorn Birthday
Reminder/bdays.ini, inside folder
"/home/claudio/.wine/drive_c/users/claudio/Applicazioni/Zhorn Birthday
Reminder" and I renamed it "bdays.ini.
8 ) Finally I checked that the application was working properly.

Thanks again dimesio, Claudio  :)