1 Running Wine without Windows
4 Sometimes you can bring applications to run by using some of the
5 native Windows DLL's, together with Wine. Here are some Tips by
6 Juergen Schmied on how to proceed. This assumes that your C:\windows
7 directory in the configuration file does not point to a native Windows
8 installation but is in a separate Unix file system. (For instance,
9 C:\windows is really /home/ego/wine/drives/c).
11 - Create empty C:\windows and C:\windows\system directories.
12 Do not point Wine to a Windows directory full of old installations
13 and a messy registry. (Wine creates a special registry in your home
14 directory, in $HOME/.wine/*.reg. Perhaps you have to remove these
16 - Run the application with -debugmsg +module,+file to find out
17 which files are needed. Copy the required DLL's one by one to the
18 C:\windows\system directory.
19 - Note that some network DLL's are not needed even though Wine is
20 looking for them. Do not copy the MPR.DLL into the directory,
21 use the internal implementation.
22 - Copy SHELL/SHELL32 and COMDLG/COMDLG32 COMMCTRL/COMCTL32
23 only as pairs to your Wine directory (these DLL's are
25 - Be consistent: Use only DLLS from the same Windows version
27 - Put regedit.exe in the C:\windows directory (office95 imports
28 a *.reg file when it runs with a empty registry, don't know