No fudge...

Wine installs its directory structure in your home directory ( /home/username/.wine/ )
As the name suggests, wine is a WINdowsEmulator, and is a real linux application, using linux resources to do it's job.

No, you do not need the redundant windows partitions on your system, otherwise you could have dual booted to windows...

Cheers,

Cheers Quentin. As it happens I can already dual boot (in fact, I can quadruple boot into 4 different OS's) but on this occasion I need to test whether a Windows app (that I wrote) will run under Wine. Thanks again

I had been Wine-curious for years, my first few attempts worked out poorly. I recently needed to use The One Windows Application I Had To Have At Work, and I tried Wine again. The app actually was more reliable under Wine than it was in Windows. The biggest quirk I found, was that for some apps it can be important to set the emulation type. For the app I needed, setting it for Win98 emulation made it work flawlessly.

Thanks for the advice. I managed to make my first application work well and I was surprised that it wasn't much slower than under Windows. But my second app was a disaster. The second app happens to use an ASPI driver (a special driver for SCSI cards). Unfortunately, when I ran it I saw some errors (all beginning with 'fixme:'). The errors seemed to suggest that ASPI isn't yet fully implemented (and so the app didn't work properly). However - much more worrying was the fact that after running this app I ended up with a non-bootable system.

I managed to recover and tried again but the same thing happens every time I run this app. The app itself doesn't write to either the boot sector or MBR (I know this for certain because I wrote the app myself). However, something is making the PC unbootable after running it.... :-(

If you run winecfg you can "mount" drives as letters C, D, E, etc. C is mounted by default at /home/user/.wine/drive_C but you can mount other drives-letters at other linux directories, for example "/media/cdrom0" or even "/". For a partition, you can have it seen by wine if you assign the mount point of that partition (in /etc/fstab) to a windows drive.

Could it be that wine "sees" your root directory as a windows drive and it's messing up things?

Also, winecfg allows you to emulate different Windows versions.

Otherwise, I suggest you try wine 0.9.58. It's in their own repository. http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb and it installs flawlessly. It's also in the sid repository but I tried to install it from there and lots of dependency issues appeared.

Pablo

Thanks Pablo. At the moment, wine is only seeing that C drive that it sets up by default (which is fine for my test purposes). This morning I re-compiled my program, commenting out the section that loads the ASPI driver. As expected, the program now runs (though not properly, of course) but it doesn't cause the subsequent non-booting problem.

If I get some time later in the week I'll add that repository and try my luck with a newer version of wine. Incidentally, are these 'fixme:' errors supposed to be reported to someone? As it happens, I do see a couple of others relating to bitmap loading and network shares.

Pablo - I upgraded to the new version of Wine but the problem is still there. It's 100% reliable - as soon as I comment in the code that loads the ASPI driver, I see lots of errors and then my machine refuses to re-boot. FWIW here's what I see in my terminal window after launching the app:-

~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/OMFI/> wine AVToolKit.exe
fixme:share:NetShareEnum Stub ((null) 502 0x50b024 -1 0x34fd70 0x50b030 (nil))
fixme:aspi:SendASPI32Command ASPI: Partially implemented SC_HA_INQUIRY for adapter 0.
fixme:aspi:SendASPI32Command ASPI: Partially implemented SC_HA_INQUIRY for adapter 1.
fixme:aspi:SendASPI32Command ASPI: Partially implemented SC_HA_INQUIRY for adapter 2.
fixme:aspi:ASPI_ExecScsiCmd Failed
fixme:aspi:ASPI_ExecScsiCmd Failed
fixme:aspi:ASPI_ExecScsiCmd Failed
fixme:aspi:ASPI_ExecScsiCmd command 0x25, no data transfer specified, but buflen is 8!!!
fixme:aspi:ASPI_ExecScsiCmd Failed
wine: Unhandled exception 0xe06d7363 at address 0x7b841df0 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: C++ exception(object = 0x0034d848, type = 0x5f4b3f50) in 32-bit code (0x7b841e83).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:7b841e83 ESP:0034d794 EBP:0034d808 EFLAGS:00200212( - 00 - -IA1)
EAX:7b82c2d1 EBX:7b8b10c0 ECX:00000000 EDX:00000008
ESI:0034d82c EDI:0034d7c0
Stack dump:
0x0034d794: 7bc41daf 00000002 bafa4a38 e06d7363
0x0034d7a4: 00000001 00000000 7b841df0 00000003
0x0034d7b4: 19930520 0034d848 5f4b3f50 001578f0
0x0034d7c4: bafa4a38 00110000 0034d810 0014d984
0x0034d7d4: 7bc3338f ffffffff 7bc896bc 0034d830
0x0034d7e4: 7bc42135 00110048 ffffff06 0034d820
Backtrace:
=>1 0x7b841e83 RaiseException+0x93() in kernel32 (0x0034d808)
2 0x7e893a1e _CxxThrowException+0x3e() in msvcrt (0x0034d838)
3 0x5f453a11 1266() in mfc42 (0x0034d84c)
4 0x5f45a66d in mfc42 (+0x5a66d) (0xbafa4a00)
5 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
0x7b841e83 RaiseException+0x93 in kernel32: subl $4,%esp
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (98 modules)
PE 350000- 362000 Deferred zlib1
PE 400000- 517000 Deferred avtoolkit
PE 520000- 5f9000 Deferred iconv
PE 10000000-100ee000 Deferred libxml2
PE 5f400000-5f4f2000 Export mfc42
PE 76080000-760e5000 Deferred msvcp60
ELF 7b800000-7b92a000 Export kernel32
\-PE 7b820000-7b92a000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bca5000 Deferred ntdll
\-PE 7bc10000-7bca5000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred
ELF 7df78000-7df9e000 Deferred netapi32
\-PE 7df80000-7df9e000 \ netapi32
ELF 7df9e000-7dfef000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.11
ELF 7dfef000-7e002000 Deferred libtasn1.so.3
ELF 7e002000-7e030000 Deferred libcrypt.so.1
ELF 7e030000-7e09e000 Deferred libgnutls.so.13
ELF 7e09e000-7e0cd000 Deferred libcups.so.2
ELF 7e0cd000-7e0ea000 Deferred imm32
\-PE 7e0d0000-7e0ea000 \ imm32
ELF 7e10e000-7e16e000 Deferred rpcrt4
\-PE 7e120000-7e16e000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e16e000-7e212000 Deferred ole32
\-PE 7e180000-7e212000 \ ole32
ELF 7e238000-7e26a000 Deferred uxtheme
\-PE 7e240000-7e26a000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7e26a000-7e27f000 Deferred midimap
\-PE 7e270000-7e27f000 \ midimap
ELF 7e27f000-7e2a5000 Deferred msacm32
\-PE 7e290000-7e2a5000 \ msacm32
ELF 7e2a5000-7e2bd000 Deferred msacm32
\-PE 7e2b0000-7e2bd000 \ msacm32
ELF 7e2bd000-7e37e000 Deferred libasound.so.2
ELF 7e391000-7e3c7000 Deferred winealsa
\-PE 7e3a0000-7e3c7000 \ winealsa
ELF 7e3c7000-7e3cc000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e3cc000-7e3d5000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e3d5000-7e3d8000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e3d8000-7e3e0000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e3e0000-7e3e5000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e3e5000-7e3e8000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7e3e8000-7e4d4000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e4d4000-7e4e2000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e4e2000-7e4e7000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e4e7000-7e4ff000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7e4ff000-7e508000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7e515000-7e519000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0
ELF 7e51b000-7e5ab000 Deferred winex11
\-PE 7e530000-7e5ab000 \ winex11
ELF 7e6b1000-7e6d1000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e6d1000-7e6fc000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e6fc000-7e710000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e710000-7e77a000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e77a000-7e79b000 Deferred mpr
\-PE 7e780000-7e79b000 \ mpr
ELF 7e79b000-7e7d0000 Deferred winspool
\-PE 7e7a0000-7e7d0000 \ winspool
ELF 7e7d0000-7e871000 Deferred comdlg32
\-PE 7e7e0000-7e871000 \ comdlg32
ELF 7e871000-7e8d8000 Export msvcrt
\-PE 7e880000-7e8d8000 \ msvcrt
ELF 7e8d8000-7e904000 Deferred ws2_32
\-PE 7e8e0000-7e904000 \ ws2_32
ELF 7e904000-7e91e000 Deferred wsock32
\-PE 7e910000-7e91e000 \ wsock32
ELF 7e91e000-7e931000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 7e931000-7e950000 Deferred iphlpapi
\-PE 7e940000-7e950000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 7e950000-7ea12000 Deferred comctl32
\-PE 7e960000-7ea12000 \ comctl32
ELF 7ea12000-7ea6a000 Deferred shlwapi
\-PE 7ea20000-7ea6a000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7ea6a000-7eb73000 Deferred shell32
\-PE 7ea80000-7eb73000 \ shell32
ELF 7eb73000-7eb87000 Deferred lz32
\-PE 7eb80000-7eb87000 \ lz32
ELF 7eb87000-7eba0000 Deferred version
\-PE 7eb90000-7eba0000 \ version
ELF 7eba0000-7ec3b000 Deferred gdi32
\-PE 7ebb0000-7ec3b000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ec3b000-7ed7b000 Deferred user32
\-PE 7ec50000-7ed7b000 \ user32
ELF 7ed7b000-7ee08000 Deferred winmm
\-PE 7ed90000-7ee08000 \ winmm
ELF 7ee08000-7ee53000 Deferred advapi32
\-PE 7ee10000-7ee53000 \ advapi32
ELF 7ee53000-7ee6c000 Deferred wnaspi32
\-PE 7ee60000-7ee6c000 \ wnaspi32
ELF 7ef94000-7ef9f000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7ef9f000-7efa9000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7efa9000-7efbf000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7efbf000-7efc8000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF 7efc8000-7efed000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF b7ce8000-b7cec000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF b7cec000-b7e1e000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF b7e1e000-b7e30000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF b7e43000-b7f58000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF b7f5a000-b7f71000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\OMFI\AVToolKit.exe
00000009 0 <==
0000000a
0000000b 0
0000000c
0000000f 0
0000000e 0
0000000d 0
00000010
00000012 0
00000011 0
Backtrace:
=>1 0x7b841e83 RaiseException+0x93() in kernel32 (0x0034d808)
2 0x7e893a1e _CxxThrowException+0x3e() in msvcrt (0x0034d838)
3 0x5f453a11 1266() in mfc42 (0x0034d84c)
4 0x5f45a66d in mfc42 (+0x5a66d) (0xbafa4a00)
5 0x00000000 (0x00000000)

I wonder if that'll make sense to anyone here or should I post it on the Wine web site?

I just use wine to run a couple of VST instruments. This is far too much for my knowledge.
Good luck
Pablo

Thanks to everyone for helping with this but it looks like I really need to flag it up on the Wine forums.

What kind of dumb web site is WineHQ?? To register for their forums, you need to answer a question "Who is the current maintainer of the Wine project?" How the hell am I supposed to know???

There's a link saying 'Hint' but that just takes you to an 'About' page which doesn't contain the answer!! I also tried searching for 'maintainer' in the WineHQ wiki but that comes up with no hits.

Next, I tried guessing at either 'WineHQ' or 'CodeWeavers' but they both got rejected.

Does anyone know the correct answer?

Sorry I can't help with wine.

Is Alexandre Julliard the answer?

dave

Yes, that was it..!!

I thought it was asking for the name of an organisation... :-(