[plug] Anti-wine nastiness?

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Thu Nov 4 15:37:11 WST 2004


skribe wrote:
> Hey folks:
> 
> I managed to get win 98 working again and so installed Quickbooks - 
> unfortunately I still haven't found a linux equivalent - with the hope of 
> running it under wine.  After all Crossover Office apparently works with QB 
> 2002 so it should work with 2004, right?  Wrong! Not even close.  
> 
> It bugs out complaining that a whole stack of libraries aren't found.  Now, 
> they're there.  But it can't find them because the files it's looking for are 
> all in uppercase and they're filenames are all mixed-case.  IIRC dos/windows 
> isn't case sensitive.  *ix is.

Interesting. I have mixed case dlls all over the place and wine picks them up without a problem. Try 
enabling dll debugging and have a look at the trace to find out why it's not seeing them.

Brad



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