wine will not execute

emu103 · 06-12-2007, 10:51 AM

i have been having LOTS and LOTS of trouble installing wine and trying to get it working.
as far as i can tell i am installing it right
./configure
make depend
make
su
make install

i see no errors

i have even used the automatic installer
./tools/wine install

but i cant find a way to run wine the program. i have yet to see a user interface. ive ran the commands wine and wine program. a loading icon comes up in my toolbar and dies. and now when i try my shell comes up and say

preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\program.exe": Module not found

correct me if im wrong but thats a windows filesystem.

i have gotten dvd shrink to work, but dont really know how. and it only works sometimes, which is the wierdest thing ive ever seen. i can click and it will work. close out. try again no less than thirty seconds later and it fails.
any suggestions on whats going on and how to fix it would be appreciated

macemoneta · 06-12-2007, 12:01 PM

On Fedora, I just:

yum -y install wine

and DVDShrink works perfectly. Maybe the problem is with the way you built wine and the patches you did/didn't apply?

References to "c:" and other Windows drives are mapped to the ~/.wine directory. There's a lot of useful documentation on wine here.

hoodedmanwithsythe · 06-12-2007, 12:11 PM

the problem with make depend is that it forgets about the modules but if you were to do a straight

Code:

./configure ; make
su
make install

then that would solve that problem.
the second problem is that i am assuming that you don't have the wine-utils package,
nor have you tried the obvieous

Code:

wine --help

command and found that wine itself just runs the program that is inputed by the appropriate args
which outputs

Code:

Wine 20050725
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
       wine --version                Output version information and exit

ie to open example.exe I would use

Code:

wine example.exe

or to configure wine I would use

Code:

/usr/bin/winecfg

as you see wine itself has no actual gui but the other packed programs such as can be found by doing the following

Code:

su
cd /
find | grep wine | grep /usr/bin

this will output all files that have wine in the name or location
here is a sample output

Code:

find | grep wine | grep /usr/bin
./usr/bin/wine
./usr/bin/wineserver
./usr/bin/winebuild
./usr/bin/winemaker
./usr/bin/wine-pthread
./usr/bin/winebrowser
./usr/bin/wine-kthread
./usr/bin/wineshelllink
./usr/bin/wineconsole
./usr/bin/wineboot
./usr/bin/winedump
./usr/bin/winefile
./usr/bin/winemine
./usr/bin/winepath
./usr/bin/winewrap
./usr/bin/wineg++
./usr/bin/winecfg
./usr/bin/winedbg
./usr/bin/winecpp
./usr/bin/winegcc
./usr/bin/wine-preloader
./usr/bin/wineprefixcreate
./usr/bin/winelauncher

hope this helps
Note in future you may wish to explore the possibilities of winelib and compileing linux apps from windows program source but this is possibly a bit hard for you right now so I wont go on to explaining this in any detail

hoodedmanwithsythe · 06-12-2007, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

On Fedora, I just:

yum -y install wine

and DVDShrink works perfectly. Maybe the problem is with the way you built wine and the patches you did/didn't apply?

References to "c:" and other Windows drives are mapped to the ~/.wine directory. There's a lot of useful documentation on wine here.

You posted just before me but I wish to jepy to your post also, so here goes,
why use DVDShrink through wine when you could use the Linux equivalent DVD95.
also the overall process is a lot faster in my experience than using DVDShrink through wine.
With DVD95 the quality is better and it removes the extra languages and other unwanted crap. even when it says that the quality is at a low ratio the resulting dvd is still of a better quality than DVDShrink.
I don't mean to sound like a salesman, heck the software is free but it seems strange to me for someone to use a windows program through wine when a perfectly suitable Linux equivalent is available.
Note the burn option doen't work properly and I would recommend the iso option as it makes it a lot easier to do as you just run the program and then burn the resulting iso using any dvd burning software.

hope this helps you dvd "backing up",

macemoneta · 06-12-2007, 01:30 PM

hoodedmanwithsythe: I wasn't recommending DVDShrink, just responding to the OP's report that it didn't work under wine.

hoodedmanwithsythe · 06-15-2007, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

hoodedmanwithsythe: I wasn't recommending DVDShrink, just responding to the OP's report that it didn't work under wine.

I know I was just saying that you may want to use dvd95 instead as it's faster and better quality. For future reference, and before you say or think I wasn't nor am i now getting at you as I have no time for such things it was just a recommendation.