winetricks failed, expecting "system32" where I have "System32" and so on

[Helge Hafting]

I just tried installing gdiplus using winetricks, on a debian testing 
system.

This failed, as winetricks tried to copy stuff into windows/system32,
where I happen to have Windows/System32.

I first tried making symlinks windows->Windows and system32->System32.
winetricks would run, but the app using gdiplus.dll now failed to find 
it. The file was in Windows/System32 as expected.

So I removed my links, and used search&replace on winetricks, to replace 
all occurences of "windows" and "system32" with captialized versions. 
Then I ran winetricks again. The installation succeeded this time too, 
but the app could still not find the dll in System32.

I finally gave up and copied the dll into the directory where the app
is installed. This worked, but is problematic; it will have to be done 
for every app that uses this dll.

Helge Hafting

winetricks failed, expecting "system32" where I have "System32" and so on

[Austin English]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting(a)hist.no> wrote:
> I just tried installing gdiplus using winetricks, on a debian testing
> system.
>
> This failed, as winetricks tried to copy stuff into windows/system32,
> where I happen to have Windows/System32.
>
> I first tried making symlinks windows->Windows and system32->System32.
> winetricks would run, but the app using gdiplus.dll now failed to find it.
> The file was in Windows/System32 as expected.
>
> So I removed my links, and used search&replace on winetricks, to replace all
> occurences of "windows" and "system32" with captialized versions. Then I ran
> winetricks again. The installation succeeded this time too, but the app
> could still not find the dll in System32.
>
> I finally gave up and copied the dll into the directory where the app
> is installed. This worked, but is problematic; it will have to be done for
> every app that uses this dll.

Why did you rename system32? Are you linking your ~/.wine/drive_c to a
real windows installation?

-- 
-Austin

winetricks failed, expecting "system32" where I have "System32" and so on

[Helge Hafting]

Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting(a)hist.no> wrote:
> > I just tried installing gdiplus using winetricks, on a debian testing
> > system.
> >
> > This failed, as winetricks tried to copy stuff into windows/system32,
> > where I happen to have Windows/System32.
> >
> > I first tried making symlinks windows->Windows and system32->System32.
> > winetricks would run, but the app using gdiplus.dll now failed to find it.
> > The file was in Windows/System32 as expected.
> >
> > So I removed my links, and used search&replace on winetricks, to replace all
> > occurences of "windows" and "system32" with captialized versions. Then I ran
> > winetricks again. The installation succeeded this time too, but the app
> > could still not find the dll in System32.
> >
> > I finally gave up and copied the dll into the directory where the app
> > is installed. This worked, but is problematic; it will have to be done for
> > every app that uses this dll.
>
> Why did you rename system32? Are you linking your ~/.wine/drive_c to a
> real windows installation?

I never renamed system32 - I don't like uppercase in filenames. I can 
only guess that wine did it that way itself in 2003 when I installed it.

I have no real windows installation. I use wine to run the one windows 
program I need - a raw converter for my digital camera.

Helge Hafting

winetricks failed, expecting "system32" where I have "System32" and so on

[Francois Gouget]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Austin English wrote:
[...]
> Why did you rename system32? Are you linking your ~/.wine/drive_c to a
> real windows installation?

Windows paths are case insensitive so anything in drive_c should be 
treated in a case-insensitive way. If winetricks does not do so, then it 
is buggy.

-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
     The software said it requires Win95 or better, so I installed Linux.

winetricks failed, expecting "system32" where I have "System32" and so on

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Helge Hafting <helge.hafting(a)hist.no> wrote:
> I just tried installing gdiplus using winetricks, on a debian testing 
> system.
>
> This failed, as winetricks tried to copy stuff into windows/system32,
> where I happen to have Windows/System32.

As usual start with a clean Wine prefix 'rm -rf ~/.wine', and try again.

-- 
Dmitry.