--- Raul Dias chaos@swi.com.br wrote:
For some time now Microsoft Office 97 installs almost perfect. However, in the end of the instalation it warns about vbe.dll could not regiter itself.
I'm not sure, but it is possible that installer
could
not find and execulte regsvr32 - the application, which registers dlls. Wine version was added to the main tree not so long time ago. Plus, until
recently
the wine applications were not installed with wine. Be sure you have this application and it is
installed.
I have it installed and working (as opposed to regedit) in my /usr/bin .
However wine apps doesn't seem to find it. Should I rename it to regsvr32.exe and move (with the regsvr32.so) to my %windows dir ?
The current wineinstall script should create *.exe->wine and *.exe.so->*.so links in the windows directory and wine should find the app there.
If so, wouldn't it be better to let wine applications (win32) call native linux applications? Maybe a replacement section in the config which would accept stuff like:
I think you can call Linux apps from Windows applications.
#This would let a call to a generic (search in wine's #Path) notepad and call a generic (in the user's unix #Path) gvim "notepad.exe" = "gvim"
#This would be a more restricted one #only if the application called matchs the dir "c:\windows\sol.exe" = "/usr/X11R6/bin/solitaire"
This would also avoid a linking hell in the c:\ tree.
All this can be implemented with "links hell", right? ;-)
If wine can already call unix applications, or a replacement section as I suggest works, I can write an app to sync wine mime and extention registries (as windows explorer does on windows) with KDE/Gnome/mailcap/mime .
I am not familiar with wine insides other than compiling it, but this might be a way I can help.
Sounds good for me. Anybody else can give a feedback?
Andriy
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