[Bug 38362] EViews 8 Student Version for Mac (using WineSkin) crashes when running panel data regression with many observations

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38362

Anastasius Focht <focht(a)gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
            Version|unspecified                 |1.3.33
                URL|                            |http://www.eviews.com/downl
                   |                            |oad/student8/
           Keywords|Abandoned?                  |download
           Hardware|Other                       |x86-64
                 CC|                            |focht(a)gmx.net
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
            Summary|EViews 8 Student Version    |EViews 8 Student Version
                   |                            |for Mac (using WineSkin)
                   |                            |crashes when running panel
                   |                            |data regression with many
                   |                            |observations

--- Comment #4 from Anastasius Focht <focht(a)gmx.net> ---
Hello folks,

you didn't use the Windows version but some "special" Mac version.

http://eviews.s3.amazonaws.com/EViews8SV.dmg

Unwrapping it without a Mac:

--- snip ---
$ 7z x EViews8SV.dmg
...
$ ls -1sh
total 977M
4.0K 0.ddm
 32K 1.Apple_partition_map
977M 2.hfs

$ sudo mount -o loop -t hfsplus 2.hfs /mnt/iso

$ pwd
/mnt/iso/EViews 8 Student Version.pkg/Contents

$ ls -1sh 
total 751M
508K Archive.bom
750M Archive.pax.gz
4.0K Info.plist
4.0K PkgInfo
   0 Resources

$ 7z x Archive.pax.gz 

Processing archive: Archive.pax.gz
Extracting  Archive.pax
Everything is Ok

Size:       1094187008
Compressed: 786002154

$ 7z x Archive.pax

...
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/gecko/1.4/wine_gecko/xpcshell.exe
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/gecko/1.4/wine_gecko/xul.dll
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/gecko/plugin
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/gecko/plugin/npmshtml.dll
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/glu32.dll
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/gphoto2.ds
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/gpkcsp.dll
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/hal.dll

...
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews 8SV/Example Files/Sample
Programs/var/varlag.prg
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews 8SV/Example Files/Sample
Programs/var/vdcmp.prg
Extracting  ./Applications/EViews 8SV/Icon

Everything is Ok

Folders: 426
Files: 3818
Size:       1093417999
Compressed: 1094187008

$ ls -1sh Applications/EViews\ 8SV/EViews8SV.app
total 8.0K
   0 Contents
4.0K drive_c
4.0K EViewsExe
   0 Wineskin.app
--- snip ---

I've had a brief look into the archive.
It seems the vendor bundled an ancient Wine version using 'Wineskin'.

--- snip ---
$ strings Applications/EViews\
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Contents/Frameworks/wswine.bundle/lib/libwine.1.0.dylib |
grep "wine-1"
wine-1.3.33
--- snip ---

--- snip ---
$ grep -m1 WINETRICKS_VERSION Applications/EViews\
8SV/EViews8SV.app/Wineskin.app/Contents/Resources/winetricks

WINETRICKS_VERSION=20110629
--- snip ---

Whatever the vendor did, that is "ported" a very outdated version of Wine is
big NO-NO here. This is not supported.
You have to contact the vendor and get support there or alternatively use the
Windows version.

Regards

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