http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25600
--- Comment #4 from Artem S. Tashkinov t.artem@mailcity.com 2012-02-02 17:48:41 CST --- You can get this Skype here: http://www.filehippo.com/download_skype/download/49df352bfbf7a632ed1f3c6e0d6...
With default Wine 1.4-rc2 settings it just segfaults on login without producing any backtrace even when I run it under winedbg:
Process of pid=0021 has terminated (some fixme's before that) Wine-dbg> (nothing, we have exited)
If I set Skype.exe to Win2K I finally get quite useless bt:
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 32-bit code (0x00587314). Register dump: CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b EIP:00587314 ESP:0307e898 EBP:00000000 EFLAGS:00010283( R- -- I S - - -C) EAX:00000097 EBX:00000000 ECX:0307e8b0 EDX:0307e89c ESI:00f33a80 EDI:00000000 Stack dump: 0x0307e898: 00585914 0000000b 0000b170 000007c8 0x0307e8a8: 0307e8b0 7f970000 0307e90c 7bc485f9 0x0307e8b8: 7b895068 0307e9ac 7b8432af 00110000 0x0307e8c8: 00000000 056fdfe0 00000000 00000000 0x0307e8d8: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0307ea70 0x0307e8e8: 7b87c4e0 00000000 7b895068 056fdfe0 Backtrace: =>0 0x00587314 in skype (+0x187314) (0x00000000) 0x00587314: int $0x2e
No version of Skype works under Wine. It's really bad and sad since the Linux version of Skype is not actively maintained (it's hard to say it's maintained at all considering its annual releases) and has a lot less features than Windows and MacOS versions.
Skype 3.x (with winver set to win98) seemingly tries to work and connect but it seems like Skype login servers no longer support this version of the application. It never connects.
Skype 4.x crashes on showing the login window.
Skype 5.5 and higher have their login window broken beyond repair. I tried installing IE8 and that fixed the login window background (with gecko it's all white) but all relevant controls disappeared without a trace, so you just cannot enter your user name and password.