OK, I've been doing bug triage on and off for years, but just recently I've gotten to the point where I'm tired of going to the NativeDCOM wiki page to remember how to try an app with native dcom just to see if the bug in question is a COM bug.
So I wrote a trivial script to automate installing that plus a bunch of other redistributables. A draft is at http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
Usage: winetricks [dcom98|fakeie6|mdac26|mfc40|mono|vbrun60|vcrun6|wsh51|wsh56jscript] ...
It's a bit like a programmer's version of winetools: it's so commandline-crufty that normal users won't go near it, but it's simple enough to extend that it will probably end up being pretty handy for anyone working on triaging bugs that appear to be due to missing redistributable libraries. Oh, or commonly-needed registry entries. - Dan
On 3/9/07, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
So I wrote a trivial script to automate installing [native dcom] plus a bunch of other redistributables. A draft is at http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
Thanks to Detlef Riekenberg for some nice cleanups to my script! A new version is now online. Two visible improvements: 1) no longer prompts for where to do initial unpacking of visual C++ runtimes 2) now knows how to install art2kmin
Enjoy... - Dan
On 3/9/07, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
So I wrote a trivial script to automate installing [native dcom] plus a bunch of other redistributables. A draft is at http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
Thanks to Detlef Riekenberg for some nice cleanups to my script! A new version is now online. Two visible improvements: 1) no longer prompts for where to do initial unpacking of visual C++ runtimes 2) now knows how to install art2kmin
Enjoy...
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