http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986
------- Additional Comments From z_god@wanadoo.nl 2003-22-06 07:14 ------- Bug comments restored from Gmane.org:
While attempting to clean install MS Office 2000 Pro, using Windows Installer 2, just after the enter license key stage, it caught a Signal 11 with these messenges: Could not load 'ODBC.DLL' required by '(AME)', error=2 Could not load 'ODBC.DLL' required by '(AME)', error=2
------- Additional Comments From mcbridematt <at> hotmail.com 2002-08-29 04:04 ------- Same for me. OBDC.dll unimplemented. Wine segfaults.
------- Additional Comments From mcbridematt <at> hotmail.com 2002-08-29 04:05 ------- *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
------- Additional Comments From andi <at> rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de 2002-08-29 05:20 ------- Well, then... what about simply implementing it ? ;-)
------- Additional Comments From mcbridematt <at> hotmail.com 2002-09-10 02:06 ------- A set of OBDC dlls for Windows 95 is included with MS Office Pro, look on the CD,you'll need Windows Installer to run it. run it by:
msiexec /i $setupfile
They don't seem to include however OBDC.dll itself.
OBDC.dll from memory first appeared in Internet Explorer 4 and was probly last included in a IE installer in IE5.5
------- Additional Comments From andi <at> rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de 2002-10-08 10:37 ------- Well, if so many people depend on it, then why not fix this issue ? ;-)
Use exedump.exe or nedump.exe or something similar to dump the function names of Windows's odbc.dll, create a file odbc.spec in dlls/odbc32/, check out how other directories in dlls/ are organized/implemented, search http://msdn.microsoft.com on how to implement not yet existing 16bit ODBC functions or so, and that's it. A matter of a couple hours, at most. (for a basic working example, at least)
------- Additional Comments From medbi01 <at> accpac.com 2002-11-06 18:33 ------- But should it be implemented similarly to odbc32.dll, i.e. as a proxy to a unix ODBC library or should it try to function as it does on windows?
------- Additional Comments From andi <at> rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de 2002-11-07 09:59 ------- Sorry, could you explain this more ? I really don't know what this means. AFAICS of course it should interface to a unix ODBC library.
------- Additional Comments From mcbridematt <at> hotmail.com 2002-11-08 05:23 ------- I've looked through and old set of Offical Platform SDK Headers (October 2000, find it somewhere on planetmirror.com ) and ODBC has puzzled me a bit.
There is no Odbc.h, there are two files called OdbcInst.h and OdbcSS.h. OdbcInst.h contains a kinda SQL Abstraction Layer and the other one some simular methods. touch(ing) the file won't work. Office 2K needs a actual working example.