Hi guys,
I have recently looked into installing MS Office 2K using some of the latest versions of wine (0.9.3 and 10 to 13).
I have found two things that I would like to ask you about.
1. When installing IE5 or Office 2k that installs it a message box saying: "The spilt of the Windows Desktop Update from the IE browser has been completed. You are currently running a self-host version of the web shell. Please go to http://ie/teams/setup/shdoc401.htm for more information on how to run a released version of the Windows Desktop Update."
This I solved by changing the version in version.h of shell32.dll from the current Win2K SP4 to old one of win 98.
My question here is why is this changed? Shouldn't we change it back if no other app needs it as Win2k since at least IE5 and MSOffice fail to install corectly because of it?
Or at least I wanted to let other people know how to solve this issue.
This changed first from 98 to XP in 26/10/2004. Then from XP to Win2k on 6/12/2004.
I could create a bug report and post a patch for it but I wanted to know your oppinion first.
2. I looked at the code the Cross Over Office 5.0.1 uses and I noticed that some dlls are not implemented by the official wine code. Dlls like: hlink, ieinfo5, iernonce which seem to be very connected to a IE5 installation and the restart windows step. There are others but I am still in the process of investigating this issue so I am not sure if they matter for this issue or not.
With the change from 1 done the Office installer works almost ok except for the restart step where dlls fail to register or functions are not found in some dlls (some of which I mentioned above).
My questions here are: - I am thinking of taking/adapting if needed code from the CrossOver Office wine and bringing them to the official wine just enough to make Office work. What do you think of this? - I am wondering how come these were not ported already. Any thoughts? Any reason not to? I am definitely interested in doing it since I would like to have Office 2k working on the official wine too.
Thanks,
Dragos
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