MS Office 97: so close...

[Dan Kegel]

I tried again to install Office 97 on today's vanilla wine from cvs.
Here's what I did, from the start:
  sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 mso97.iso /mnt
  rm -rm .wine
  winecfg
  # choose WinME emulation
  # Override odbccp32
  # quit
  wine \mnt\setup.exe
It worked great, right up to the end, where it failed with
the dialog box "Accwiz.dll was unable to register itself in the system
registry".  Here are the unique fixme's from the log:
fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx :stub
fixme:font:CreateScalableFontResourceA
(0,"c:\windows\offsetup.for","c:\windows\offsetup.ttf",(null)):
stub
fixme:ole:MkParseDisplayName (0x7eb38788, L"stdole32.tlb", 0x7b93ed34,
0x110): stub.
fixme:ole:MkParseDisplayName (0x7eb38908, L"stdole32.tlb", 0x7b93ec60,
0x110): stub.
fixme:ole:MkParseDisplayName (0x7eb38908, L"STDOLE32.TLB", 0x7b93ee88,
0x7eb3ab04): stub.

I've filed this as http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3689
along with a +ole,+dialog log.  (+relay took waaaay too long to run.)

Having Office '97 running on plain Wine would make my life easier-
my wife would no longer object so much to having Linux on
all our computers :-)

So are those fixme's important, or just a distraction?

[Hans Leidekker]

On Saturday 29 October 2005 07:17, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I tried again to install Office 97 on today's vanilla wine from cvs.
> # Override odbccp32

I'm working on a patch that adds just enough functionality to
odbccp32 for the installers of Office 95, 97 and 2000 to proceed
without crashing. In fact, it's only the 95 installer that's
still giving troubles at the moment (I'm talking about the
"standard installation" here).

-Hans

[Dan Kegel]

On 10/29/05, Hans Leidekker  wrote:
> I'm working on a patch that adds just enough functionality to
> odbccp32 for the installers of Office 95, 97 and 2000 to proceed
> without crashing. In fact, it's only the 95 installer that's
> still giving troubles at the moment (I'm talking about the
> "standard installation" here).

Cool!  I look forward to it.
If you shoot me a copy I can verify it solves my problems.
(http://winehq.com/pipermail/wine-patches/2005-October/021484.html seems
to already be applied, so you must be talking about something more...)
- Dan

[Jonathan Ernst]

Le samedi 29 octobre 2005 à 07:10 -0700, Dan Kegel a écrit :
> On 10/29/05, Hans Leidekker  wrote:
> > I'm working on a patch that adds just enough functionality to
> > odbccp32 for the installers of Office 95, 97 and 2000 to proceed
> > without crashing. In fact, it's only the 95 installer that's
> > still giving troubles at the moment (I'm talking about the
> > "standard installation" here).
>
> Cool!  I look forward to it.
> If you shoot me a copy I can verify it solves my problems.
> (http://winehq.com/pipermail/wine-patches/2005-October/021484.html seems
> to already be applied, so you must be talking about something more...)
> - Dan

You'll find the patches here:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3660
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3689