[H-GEN] Some clues needed about WINE

[rob at rotapile.com]

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> I know next to nothing about installing Windows applications and
> nothing at all about WINE.

Config is done throught a flatfile in ~/.wine/config its fairly straight
forward. Earlier versions allowed a global config in /etc , im not too sure
if that's still the case.

> I'd be grateful if somebody could tell me if I should first try
> to install the program as a Windows thing, test run it to see
> how it works, and then install WINE and see if it knows how to
> find and run the program?

Yep, install it on the windows ME partition, if you mount that partition in
your filesystem and configure WINE to the mount point as the c:\ you might
just be lucky. In alot of cases it just comes down to alot of frigging
around in order to get stuff to run in wine. One warning though, i have seen
this tactic mess with the windows install, so you could always just copy the
contents of the partition to somewhere in your filesystem (say
~/.wine/fakewindows) and in ~/.wine/config have:

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/home/user/.wine/fake_windows"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "/home/user/.wine/fake_windows"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

Not too sure about licensing here, although you -are- running the same copy
on the same box, just in a different way.

Wine also has an application compatibility page somewhere over at the
codeweavers site.

> Or could I just install WINE, copy the application into some
> Unix directory and try to get WINE to run it from there?

This is known to work in some cases, you still need some place for wine to
get its dll's etc, I believe the install creates a fake windows directory
somewhere and it can be used as the c:\ drive.

As a rule of thumb, if the programs installer works you stand a chance of
the program working too.

Also, programs whose install folder can be copied from one Windows machine
to another and still run have a good track record of working in wine. MIRC
is an example.

Robert Stanford







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