Moving from Windows to Ubuntu 20.04

[alex4orly]

Hello,

I am in the process of moving from Windows to Ubuntu 20.04 (Brave or Stupid?) and installed Wine 5.14

I am a web developer and use for the past 13 years this tool:
https://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/

Tried to install it inside Wine and it keeps failing... Missing MFC42u.dll is one example.

1) How does the Wine team decide which Windows applications to support? Does it depand on the devloper of that package to register it for Wine?
2) Is there something you can help me with this specific application to be able to run it inside WIne?

Looking forward to your feedback

Thanks,
Alex - Australia

[jkfloris]

1) I think they don't.
If you have found a bug, you should report a bug with as much information as possible and the developers will try to fix it.
Some bugs are more difficult to fix than others. Sometimes it can take a long time to fix a bug, other times it is the next day.

2) The missing MFC42u.dll is part of Visual C++ 6. This package should be installed by the program. If the setup doesn't
have an option to install Visual C++ you could use winetricks to install the package.

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# Install winetricks (if you haven't already.)
sudo apt install winetricks

# Update winetricks
sudo winetricks --self-update

# Install MFC42
winetricks mfc42

I tried WYSIWYG Web Builder 15.4.4 and it installed the Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable by itself.
Which version of WYSIWYG Web Builder are you trying to run?