wine users - Jun 2012 - debugging - why my app doesn't run under Wine

I am running Linux Mint with Wine installed, and am testing a suite of Windows
applications which I wrote & have control over, and am trying to determine
why one of them doesn't run under Wine and see if there are any
modifications I can make to it to make it work.  The symptoms are a follows:

My application is a server/router written in C++/MFC which implements a
proprietary protocol on top of TCP/IP.  When I first tried running it, I
received a WMI error, so I used Winetricks to install WMI.  The WMI installation
reported success, I rebooted my machine and attempted running it again.  This
time there is no error message, but I just get a spinning cursor for about 10
seconds and then the cursor returns to the pointer.  Checking a logfile that my
app creates indicates that it merely exits without ever performing it's
initialization.

I am quite unfamiliar with linux so I do not know where to look for hints as to
what may be going wrong.  Several of my other applications run fine, so Wine
seems to be working properly on my machine. Suggestions, please!

Hi,

if your app needs access to TCP/IP ports < 1024 and you are running as
regular user (running wine as root is not recommended), you will need to do
something like described in
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10735/linux-allowing-an-user-to-listen-to-a-port-below-1024

The simpler alternative would be to choose ports above 1024, if you can.

Furthermore you might need to do "winetricks vcrun6", as wine
doesn't implement mfc.

If it still doesn't work, upgrade to latest wine version, run from command
line and post terminal output.

Log file is too large for pastebin.  The zip file is a reasonable size but I
don't appear to be able to put a zip on pastebin.