https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39937
--- Comment #4 from Jeff D. Hanson jhansonxi@gmail.com --- Follow up.
Since a workaround for the install bug has been reported, I was able to install 5.4.8.1 properly. I was able to run it by changing the system date back to 2015.
The error doesn't occur now. There's some other OLE errors that Wine reports but they're not fatal to the app:
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x1027a err:winediag:SQLDrivers No ODBC drivers could be found. Check the settings for your libodbc provider. err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111 err:ole:create_server class {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} not registered err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} could be created for context 0x5
I think the original problem was the incomplete hacked install, and its current absence is due to that being corrected rather than Wine changes.