The nice folks at TurboCash have been trying to run TurboCash with Wine for a long time off and on. As of last year, they complained that Borland BDE didn't work with stock wine (see e.g. http://www.turbocashuk.com/Forums/index.php?s=203b0c6d3e3d67cd58fb7389167e71... ) They even went to the trouble of producing four little test apps, two for GUI stuff, and one each for BDE and MySQL. I tried the BDE one, and it seems to work now! Here's how to try them. I haven't worked out how to install mysql yet, perhaps somebody else could complete this script...
Thanks, Dan
# Point to your copy of wine WINEDIR=$HOME/cs130/ WINE=$WINEDIR/wine REGSVR32=$WINEDIR/programs/regsvr32/regsvr32 #WINE=wine #REGSVR32=regsvr32
# Start with a fresh fake Windows directory rm -rf ~/.wine
# Install Borland's BDE # (See http://compkarori.com/dbase/bu09inno.htm ) wget -c http://www.jrsoftware.org/download.php/bdeinst.cab cabextract bdeinst.cab $REGSVR32 BdeInst.dll
# Try TurboCash's minimal Wine test cases; see # http://www.turbocashuk.com/Forums/index.php?s=203b0c6d3e3d67cd58fb7389167e71... wget -c http://www.turbocash.nl/download/Controlstest.zip unzip Controlstest.zip
# Test BDE (interactive app; works for me) $WINE Controlstest/SimleBDE.exe
# Test MySQL (interactive app; doesn't even load, # it needs mysql40.dll or something like that, # and I haven't tried to install that yet) $WINE Controlstest/ZSimple.exe
# There are two other test programs for gui controls; # they seem to run, but I haven't verified they behave # identically under wine and windows
-- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv