Dear sir or madam,
I would like to use Autodesk's "DWG TrueView 2020" to open DWG files on GNU/Linux without using a virtual computer running Microsoft Windows. But the installer fails in Crossover and Wine [1]. It is a known issue [2]. You can try the installer yourself [3]. I cannot fix it.
I would like to spend money to make the installer work. Whom can I sponsor? At which company can I buy development hours? Are there other options from your point of view?
Thank you for your input.
[1] I tried "DWG TrueView 2020" with Crossover 18.5.0 without success. The installer fails with error message "Install error 120: Call not implemented." I tried with Wine 4.14, 5.0, and 5.1 staging on Fedora 30 x86_64. Same problem.
[2] On 2019-08-24 I reported the problem to Codeweavers at: https://www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?ticket_id=1230834 The problem was confirmed 2 days later, but no solution available. I asked for information about sponsored development to no avail.
This seems to be the bug on WineHQ.org: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12532
[3] Since the 2020 version a 64-bit operating system is required. On the website: https://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg/viewers you can download the "DWG TrueView" installer. It is 680 MiB. Note that the installer will download 1.9 GiB during installation. -- Kind regards, René
Hi René,
[2] On 2019-08-24 I reported the problem to Codeweavers at: https://www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?ticket_id=1230834 The problem was confirmed 2 days later, but no solution available. I asked for information about sponsored development to no avail.
It looks like we screwed up; we helped you with the initial conversation, but then your follow on question was ignored. That looks to be something wrong with our internal process we're going to try to fix. (Believe me, we don't ignore it when people ask to sponsor work on Wine, really, we don't <grin>).
I've alerted James Ramey, our President, who handles sales questions, and hopefully he will reach out to you shortly.
Cheers,
Jeremy White CEO CodeWeavers
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René Genz