http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17356
--- Comment #11 from Miguel Lopez graptorx@gmail.com 2009-07-25 13:49:30 --- I had the same problem... I did solve it even though im not 100% sure if this is the cause...
copied c:/windows/fonts from an XP SP2 machine, pasted it in my Slackware 12.2 machine.
Used the font installer and installed the fonts. At the beginning this didnt work but after i uninstalled wine and later on recompiled again it worked flawlessly...
My advice is to try, 1st install the fonts, uninstall wine (if installed), compile, install.
method of installing was: ./configure make depend && make make install
also worked with:
./tools/wineinstall
Please post back if it worked or not since I feel that this could be another instance of bug 5253 (Starcraft/Diablo/Battle.net crashes from font metrics problem).