http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7406
------- Additional Comments From mikolaj.zalewski@gmail.com 2007-15-02 17:19 ------- If you can't install with a properly configured registry then of course this is a bug and you should reopen it.
However I'd expect it should work. The com.mathworks.installer.Win32.GetShortCutTarget is a JNI function (i.e. written in C and it makes native Win32 calls) that probably creates a ShellLink object to read the target. Because there was no registry entry for it, CoCreateInstance returned NULL. The installer dereferenced that NULL and crashed.