[Wine] Re: ACCESS application in wine
Frank Busse
frank at busse.oche.de
Mon Mar 19 00:51:49 CDT 2007
Hi Duane,
thx for your advice. In the meantime, I've installed the program in a
VMware virtual machine (and it does fine). But it would definitely be
much more convenient to have it running on wine!
The way you describe sounds straight enough even for a 'simple' user
like me. But I'm running a bit short of time in the moment (who isn't?)
and will revert to this case as soon as I can afford...
Frank
Duane Clark wrote 07.12.2006 23:23:
> [...]
>
> How much effort do you want to put into getting it to run? Probably an
> old app intended to run under Win98 can be made to run under Wine
> without too much trouble. Since it is an old program, I don't suppose a
> trail version is available on the web somewhere.
>
> If you want to spend a bit of time, you might want to open up a bug on
> it, and post in this thread the bug number. I would be interested in
> seeing if it is a problem in reading the database files.
>
> As an idea of things you might end up doing, probably the first step
> would be to set an environment variable to get relay traces:
> export WINEDEBUG=+relay
> Then run the program, redirecting the output to a file:
> wine myprogram.exe >& wine.log
> That will probably make your program run very slow, and wine.log could
> become 100s of MBytes, so plenty of disk space and a fast computer help.
>
> Once the problem happens, exit the program. See if the error message is
> in the log file:
> grep "Data type mismatch" wine.log
> If it is, the lines before that might give some clues to what the
> program is doing, and which DLL is the problem.
>
> Is this a path you are interested in taking?
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