http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657
------- Additional Comments From dank@kegel.com 2007-24-02 11:28 ------- The console messages are not visible when users don't run the app from the commandline. We need to solve that in general sometime, perhaps by having our logging code recognize some errors as worthy of displaying in a popup, or perhaps by having a tray icon to show the Wine console (kind of like the Javascript console in browsers).
mfc42.dll is a microsoft redistributable. There are other dlls that are sometimes missing that are not redistributable, or are not from Microsoft. Because MS redistributables are freely available as part of other freely available apps, a certain amount of guidance for the users can go a long way. Alternately, we could have wineprefixcreate install one of those apps automatically; that would make the mfc42.dll problem go away...