There are times when you've been trying everything, you even killed a cat
at full moon and ate it with rotten garlic and foul fish
while doing the Devil's Dance, yet nothing helped to make some damn
program work on some Wine version.
Don't despair, we're here to help you...
(in other words: how much do you want to pay ?)
Look at the output from $ wine --version to make sure you're running
a recent version of Wine. Launch winecfg and look over the
settings to make sure you have settings that look normal. Look
in ~/.wine/dosdevices to make sure you're
c: points to where you think it should.
Run with WINEDEBUG=+loaddll to figure out which DLLs are
being used, and whether they're being loaded as native or
built-in.
Then make sure you have proper native DLL files in your
configured C:\windows\system directory and fiddle with DLL
load order settings at command line or in config file.
Just an idea: could it be that your Wine build/execution
environment is broken ?
Make sure that there are no problems whatsoever with the
packages
that Wine depends on (gcc, glibc, X libraries, OpenGL (!), ...)
Maybe your app is using some kind of copy protection ?
Many copy protections currently don't work on Wine.
Some might work in the future, though.
(the CD-ROM layer isn't really full-featured yet).
Sometimes wine installation process changes and new versions of
Wine account on these changes.
This is especially true if your setup was created long time ago.
Rename your existing ~/.wine directory
for backup purposes.
Use the setup process that's recommended for your Wine distribution
to create new configuration.
Use information in old ~/.wine
directory as a reference. Later you can remove the new
~/.wine directory and rename your old one back.
There is a really good chance that someone has already tried
to do the same thing as you. You may find the
following resources helpful:
Search WineHQ's
Application Database to check for any tips
relating to the program. If your specific version of
the program isn't listed you may find a different one
contains enough information to help you out.
Frank's Corner
contains a list of applications and detailed instructions
for setting them up. Further help can be found in the user
forums.
Freenode.net
hosts an IRC channel for Wine. You can access it by using
any IRC client such as Xchat. The settings you'll need are:
server = irc.freenode.net, port = 6667, and channel = #winehq
If you have a program that needs the Visual Basic Runtime Environment,
you can download it from
this Microsoft site
If you know you are missing a DLL, such as mfc42,
you may be able to find it at
www.dll-files.com
Wine's mailing
lists may also help, especially wine-users. The
wine-devel list may be appropriate depending on the type of
problem you are experiencing. If you post to wine-devel you
should be prepared to do a little work to help diagnose the
problem. Read the section below to find out how to debug
the source of your problem.
If all else fails, you may wish to investigate commercial
versions of Wine to see if your application is supported.
Finding the source of your problem is the next step to take.
There is a wide spectrum of possible problems
ranging from simple configurations issues to completely unimplemented
functionality in Wine. The next section will describe how to
file a bug report and how to begin debugging a crash. For more
information on using Wine's debugging facilities be sure to read
the Wine Developers Guide.
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