WINE installation of self-developed scientific software

[ldv1452]

Hi everyone!

I have created a free scientific software using Windows Visual Studio (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fruits/). However, I am not a professional programmer. I would like to make the program accessible to Linux and Mac users and WINE seems to be the right tool. I have installed the program using WINE and during the installation process I included the .NET 4.0 dependencies. The program for the most part works well! However, some graphs are not plotted. I suspect that the problem lies in some functionalities provided by .NET.

I have tried different options in NET 4.0 to force the embedding of some .NET dlls that I suspect create the graphical options that are not working properly. However, this did not work. I am also not sure if the options I tested were the best. I have been working on this for several days, checking the Internet, and trying different possibilities without success.

I would be grateful for any suggestions on trying to sort this out either from the programming side or from the WINE side.

All the best,

Ricardo

[dimesio]

I downloaded the app; native gdiplus will get the box plots to render, which I assume is the problem you are talking about. That's just a workaround, though; you should file a bug for the deficiency in Wine's gdiplus.

[ldv1452]

Thank you dimesio! Indeed the box plots not rendering was one of the problems. The other issues are also related with graphs and I suspect the same reason will apply.

Before reporting the bug I would like to first replicate your workaround and check if all is working. I've tried to include the gdiplus dll in the exe and/or system32 folders and registering but this did not work. Could you please let me know a bit more how you managed?

[dimesio]

I installed dotnet40 and gdiplus with winetricks, then installed your program. This was in a clean, 32 bit wineprefix using Wine 1.7.52. (.NET does not work in 64 bit wineprefixes.)

[ldv1452]

Thank you again dimesio! This worked perfectly! One thing: when using winetricks and selecting gdiplus a very large file was downloaded (service pack?). The software worked fine but it also worked with gdiplus_winxp which as a much smaller download.

I am interested in reporting this gdiplus bug but some advice would be appreciated. Where should I do this? Do you advise anything on the formulation of the bug?

[dimesio]

Follow these guidelines: http://wiki.winehq.org/Bugs.

[ldv1452]

Will do! Thank you!