I have Mandrake 10 installed and I want to run my Windows version of AutoCAD 2004 in Linux with WINE. However when I go to run it with WINE I get the following:

wine /home/windows/Program\ Files/AutoCAD\ 2004/acad.exe

err:module:import_dll Library gdiplus.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\windows\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2004\\acad.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library ac1st16.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\windows\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2004\\acad.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library acdb16.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\windows\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2004\\acad.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library acdb16.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\windows\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2004\\acui16.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library acui16.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\windows\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2004\\acad.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library AcGe16.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\windows\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2004\\acad.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\windows\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2004\\acad.exe" failed, status c0000135

What do I need to modify?

well, it looks like you'll need to find those dll's

did you just copy over the install from a windows partition? those dll's are, afaik, not native dll's, but specific to the program

No I bought a new hard drive and just installed Mandrake onto it.

Ok so after I find the dll's on my windows disk or wherever, what do I do then? Is there some PATH variable in WINE that I can modify so it searches in the correct directory?

try this

first cd into acad dir, and then run wine

cd "/home/windows/Program Files/Auto CAD 2004/"
wine acad

btw what wine ver do you use?

Ok I'll try that, but now after I rebooted into Windows on my other hard disk and then rebooted back into Linux I can't access my Windows HDD that has AutoCAD on it. My umask is set on 755 for my Windows HDD in Linux. My /etc/fstab reads as follows:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb2 /home/windows ntfs umask=755,user,suid,dev,exec 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0


By the way my WINE version is 20040615.

what error does the kernel print?

Can it load the module ntfs.o?

I'm not sure but I know I have read access on the NTFS hard disk because I tried it out to make sure before I attempted using WINE. I also attempted cd'ing into the AutoCAD directory and then running WINE in hopes it would find the dll's there but no such luck.

Then you'd search for these dll's in autocad dir and in .../home/windows/system32. If you don't find anything, try to reinstall acad.
BTW I am not sure that the program will run from a read-only partition. If it doesn't work after installing dll's try to copy acad to a writable partition.

I had to place some Dll's I needed for a prog into the "fake_windows/windows/system32" folder putting them anywhere else and they are ignored <shrug>

Do you know if ACAD 2004 actually works with wine on linux? If so, is there a web site that gives you instructions on how to make it work? If not, how did you find out you could use it? Did you just give it a try? Did you install ACAD 2004 using Wine? Have you heard of cedega? http://www.transgaming.com.