installshield and Wine

What is the current state of play?

It seems that InstallShield is pretty much and essential element in a  
working Wine env. But I tried to install Dragon NS 7 yesterday and it hung  
completely with a system wide modal in the middle of the screen.

I had to kill the parent.

There has been some regressions in Wine recently it seems , what would be  
the best wine version to install to get around this issue.?

Thanks.

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[Sijmen Mulder]

wino(a)piments.com wrote:
> What is the current state of play?
>
> It seems that InstallShield is pretty much and essential element in a  
> working Wine env. But I tried to install Dragon NS 7 yesterday and it 
> hung  completely with a system wide modal in the middle of the screen.
>
> I had to kill the parent.
>
> There has been some regressions in Wine recently it seems , what would 
> be  the best wine version to install to get around this issue.?
>
> Thanks.

Same here. I was trying to install the Empire Earth 2 demo, just for 
fun, but the installer bailed out with an error message.

Thanks to whoever has some info,
Sijmen Mulder

[Mike Hearn]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:12:44 +0100, wino wrote:
> It seems that InstallShield is pretty much and essential elemet in a  
> working Wine env. But I tried to install Dragon NS 7 yesterday and it hung  
> completely with a system wide modal in the middle of the scree

I'll see if I can submit a patch to fix this later today.

Hi Mike ,

any progress here?

I have just updated to wine-cvs (2005 03 05  9am CET) and I see no change  
in this blockage.

Installshield runs upto the point where I have selected the install  
options then locks up when I click "next".
The only respone I can get is that any mouse click or key press when it  
has the focus gets a beep from the pc speaker so it's not complely crashed  
but something is badly wrong.

Any suggestions.

I guess I'm not alone here.

Regards,


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:01:13 +0000, Mike Hearn <mike(a)navi.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:12:44 +0100, wino wrote:
> > It seems that InstallShield is pretty much and essential elemet in a
> > working Wine env. But I tried to install Dragon NS 7 yesterday and it  
> > hung
> > completely with a system wide modal in the middle of the scree
>
> I'll see if I can submit a patch to fix this later today.

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[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 09:14 +0100, peter(a)piments.com wrote:
> Hi Mike ,
>
> any progress here?
>
> I have just updated to wine-cvs (2005 03 05  9am CET) and I see no change  
> in this blockage.
>
> Installshield runs upto the point where I have selected the install  
> options then locks up when I click "next".
> The only respone I can get is that any mouse click or key press when it  
> has the focus gets a beep from the pc speaker so it's not complely crashed  
> but something is badly wrong.

AJ hasn't committed the patch I sent in yet. When he does it won't hang
anymore (but I'm seeing other problems). Fortunately Jeremy is going to
lock Rob in a room until InstallShield works shortly, which is good
because I don't have any spare time to work on this right now
(university sucking ...)

thanks -mike

Update:

I found the following tip on frankscorner.org:
  WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n" wine setup.exe

this enabled me to successfully run the installation for NS 7 prefered.

This did not work on wine-20050211

Thanks for your help.



On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:01:13 +0000, Mike Hearn <mike(a)navi.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:12:44 +0100, wino wrote:
> > It seems that InstallShield is pretty much and essential elemet in a
> > working Wine env. But I tried to install Dragon NS 7 yesterday and it  
> > hung
> > completely with a system wide modal in the middle of the scree
>
> I'll see if I can submit a patch to fix this later today.

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[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:34:42AM +0100, peter(a)piments.com wrote:
> Update:
>
> I found the following tip on frankscorner.org:
>  WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n" wine setup.exe
>
> this enabled me to successfully run the installation for NS 7 prefered.
> Good!

Try finding a MessageBeep() call in the relay log in case of the speaker beep
to find out what it is complaining about...

Andreas Mohr