http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7409
------- Additional Comments From mizvekov@gmail.com 2007-12-02 23:01 ------- It seems this error happens because _check_manifest fails. looking at this function, it calls FindActCtxSectionStringW which seems to be unimplemented, right? when this funcion is called, wine outputs this: fixme:actctx:FindActCtxSectionStringW 00000000 (null) 2 L"msvcr80.dll" 0x327b8c I didnt not try to understand the control flow very hard, but its likely this is the reason to blame.
It seems this is the official MS way to get msvcr80.dll: http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/files/vcredist_x86.zip but this seems to fail to install in wine with: wine vcredist_x86.exe fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "C:\windows\temp\IXP001.TMP\" 00000000 wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x80002b8c at address 0x701069b2 (thread 003f), starting debugger... So as a workaround you can try: http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/files/microsoft.vc80.crt.zip which includes the manifest file _check_manifest looks for. i placed it inside windows/winsxs as should be expected