[CLUE-Tech] Anyone using Wine?

[Jef Barnhart]

That has been one of the drawbacks to wine. They have done remarkable work with getting apps to work. What they have not done is making the software install under WINE. The install under wine is hit and miss.

Most of what you see that people are saying "Works under WINE" is accually installed in Windows. They then boot to Linux or in your case FreeBSD and mount the Windows partition and ran the program. 

When I had last played with WINE the releases were hit and miss as to whether the would run the Windows installed programs. You might try to go back to an earlier release of WINE.

Jef

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:12:08 -0700
Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at attbi.com> wrote:

> I asked a question about Media Player on the wine-users list, but got no
> answers, so I thought I'd go local and ask, since there seems to be a lot of
> knowledgeable people on here. I can't even get past the
> install of Windows Media Player 6.4 under wine. 
> 
> Here's what I actually sent to wine-users:
> ===================================================
> I'm trying to install Media Player 6.4...I get up to the point just where
> install is saying, installing foo (foo varies, sometimes it says
> DirectSound, other times Codec Preinstall, or DirectEx). Then I get an error
> that says:
>  
> "Unhandled exception <hex> at address <hex>. Do you wish to debug it?"
>  
> I am running FreeBSD 4.4. Wine version is Wine release 20010824. According
> the app database, others are getting this to work, so I'm not sure why I
> can't...
>  
> Here is a log of commandline output:
>  
> bash-2.05$ wine mpfull.exe

----CUT----

> file_set_error: Bad address
> 
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