[KLUG Members] Update about Bill's wine question

Chester Wisniewski chetw at zuzax.com
Fri Nov 23 15:26:16 EST 2007


Michael Lueck wrote:
> Still more progress...
>
> This application seems to have been wrapped with a cross platform 
> launcher. So, I suspect there was a good chance that native Linux Java 
> JRE could run the app. There was a config file that tells the launcher 
> EXE what Java class to launch, the classpath, etc...
>
> I created a shell script to test launching the app, and have JRE 
> 1.5.0.13 installed. The app window comes up noticeably faster.
>
> However, several dialogs pop up stating that various graphics files 
> can not be found. It also never completely loads the window - title 
> bar says something like "Loading" whereas in Wine I eventually saw 
> that message change possibly indicating it was getting further in the 
> Wine environment.
>
> Suggestions... (Or is everyone else busy shopping?)
>
Have you tried strace to see what Windows GDI files it may be trying to 
access and getting a missing file?

Chet



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