I tried installing a free game at random [1] from a web site I found [2]. I downloaded it and tried installing it into a freshly created with "wineprefixcreate" .wine folder.
The game installed without a problem. When I tried to run the game wine presented a dialog that said I needed Mozilla ActiveX controls and offered to download & install them. The download worked, however the install _FAILED_ .
I found a web site [3] with troubleshooting tips. It suggested I was missing two dlls, MSVCP60.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL. I downloaded the zip file [4] and unzipped it into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system .
Reran the game, wine presented the same dialog about ActiveX. This time it downloaded & installed properly. The game started, ran and played.
Two issues come to mind for the ActiveX installer: - it need to check for MSVCP60.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL before it bothers to download ActiveX. - it should cache the ActiveX download ( in /tmp maybe? ) with an option to keep it on hand. Since wine is installed per user it is probable a machine may need to install this more than once.
[1] http://www.kprobe.com/kprobe/Downloads/SetupXMasMath.exe [2] http://www.kprobe.com/kprobe/index.htm
[3] http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/troubleshooting.htm [4] http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/runtime60.zip
Le lun 31/10/2005 à 17:51, Ron Jensen a écrit :
I tried installing a free game at random [1] from a web site I found [2]. I downloaded it and tried installing it into a freshly created with "wineprefixcreate" .wine folder.
The game installed without a problem. When I tried to run the game wine presented a dialog that said I needed Mozilla ActiveX controls and offered to download & install them. The download worked, however the install _FAILED_ .
Right. I find it a bit bizarre to have Wine facilitate the automatic download of something which doesn't work out of the box.
I found a web site [3] with troubleshooting tips. It suggested I was missing two dlls, MSVCP60.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL. I downloaded the zip file [4] and unzipped it into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system .
Before you try to download/install the control, you can simply make a symlink in your c:\windows\system32 named msvcp60.dll pointing to c:\program files\Mozilla ActiveX Control 1.7.12\msvcp70.dll. (Yes, the control provides mscvp70.dll but links with msvcp60.dll. I haven't had the time to ask the author why.)
Reran the game, wine presented the same dialog about ActiveX. This time it downloaded & installed properly. The game started, ran and played.
Two issues come to mind for the ActiveX installer:
- it need to check for MSVCP60.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL before it bothers to
download ActiveX.
Wine's msvcrt.dll is enough for the control. See above for msvcp60.dll.
- it should cache the ActiveX download ( in /tmp maybe? ) with an option
to keep it on hand. Since wine is installed per user it is probable a machine may need to install this more than once.
The easiest way would be to include it in the binary packages, and use a "file:///" URL to "download" it. The only problem is it adds about 4MB to the package, which is quite a lot relatively. Keeping files in /tmp is a bad idea, because it means untrusted users can get you to run something, and /tmp is usually cleaned up by a cron job.
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