Re: [Wine]starcraft fails right at the end of the install
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:21:30AM +0000, cedric wrote:
Hi all i'm running wine 20040716, installed manualy, no wineinstall, blank windows drive, only the right dirs are present there, as i couldn't get regedit to make the default reg keys for me
I tried to install starcraft, but right after it copied all the files it comes up with this error screen: Error: Unable to create a link to E:\Help\Star.htm as C:\Windos\start menu\programs\starcraft\help.lnk Installation aborted error 0: success at LinkUndo.cpp line 165.
I noticed this "error" with other programs. Apparently, wine (or at least this build) doesn't support creating links in the start menu, or something along those lines -- it makes sence when you consider that wine users shouldn't exactly see a point in "accessing" these windows shortcuts. However, your program's setup is finicky about being unable to create shortcuts for the program, so you can't continue. (Some installs complain, but allow you to continue...) Maybe wine-devel could consider creating a stub, or just falsely return true to these calls? Also, you might want to look at CVS code, to see if this has already been implemented. If all else fails, try looking at the M$ Windows binaries/patches for win95 - i.e. DCOM, and MSI stuff, etc. They *might* help, but correct me if I'm wrong.
After i click cancel all the starcraft files are deleted. After i tried again i killed wine without pressing cancel. All the starcraft files remain, but when i run the installer again it askes me to install the game instead of run, so i guess not all the regestry keys have been created. Also, when i try to run the game from the program files directory, sc complains about the cd not being present.
Setup Program probably creates shortcuts, then reg entries. But since it can't create shortcuts, it never creates the reg entries. That's my theory. (See above.) Most games are stupid in that they rely on their registry entries to tell them that the program is installed, as opposed to actually checking the filesystem.
here are the errors wine gave me: bash-2.05b$ cd /mnt/cdrom/ bash-2.05b$ wine INSTALL.EXE
Oh! One more thing. Your CD-Rom should be mounted to a dosdevice, and you should/can execute it from there, I think. So your first line should/might say "cd /home/<user>/.wine/dosdevices/<cd>:". (/home/cedric/.wine/dosdevices/e:) Also, note that windows never had case-sensitive names -- maybe bad program is causing errors by Linux/wine being case sensitive?
err:font:ReadFontDir Can't open directory "/home/cedric/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Fonts" Fontconfig error: line 24: not well-formed (invalid token) Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy fixme:shell:Stream_WriteLocationInfo writing empty location info err:font:ReadFontDir Can't open directory "/home/cedric/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Fonts" Fontconfig error: line 24: not well-formed (invalid token) Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to extract icon. fixme:shell:Stream_WriteLocationInfo writing empty location info err:font:ReadFontDir Can't open directory "/home/cedric/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Fonts" Fontconfig error: line 24: not well-formed (invalid token) Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to extract icon.
And some random info: bash-2.05b$ ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/ total 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 8 Jul 11 10:22 a:: -> /dev/fd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 22 May 16 22:16 c: -> /storage/windows-drive lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 10 May 16 22:16 com1 -> /dev/ttyS0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 10 May 16 22:16 com2 -> /dev/ttyS1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 10 May 16 22:16 com3 -> /dev/ttyS2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 10 May 16 22:16 com4 -> /dev/modem lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 2 Jul 11 10:53 d: -> /d lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 11 Jul 11 18:25 e: -> /mnt/cdrom/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 12 May 16 22:16 f: -> /home/cedric lrwxr-xr-x 1 cedric users 8 May 16 22:16 lpt1 -> /dev/lp0
bash-2.05b$ uname -a Linux lfs 2.6.7 #1 Sat Jun 26 14:30:34 Local time zone must be set--see zic manu i686 GenuineIntel unknown GNU/Linux
bash-2.05b$ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.3.2/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ : (reconfigured) ../gcc-3.3.2/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c+
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I hope you don't mind me putting you in the To: line instead.
Regards, cedric -- The only dumb question is the one omitted
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Just my two cents. Hope I helped in any way possible. Consider joining the wine-users/wine-devel lists, and taking part. It's a good idea, and using e-mail filtering software like POPFile is easy; even the most inexperienced users can just mention noticed behaviour in Wine. (Or, use internal filtering software in your e-mail client - 99% of wine e-mails already have [Wine] in their subject lines anyways.) Error messages are self-explainatory if you know how to read them. :) -Michael
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