native quartz.dll for an old game

[steveis2]

Hi,
I've been using wIne 5.0.3 on Linux Mint 20 and trying to get an old game called galactic civilizations working. It installs OK but then freezes pretty quickly. I see in the database that a user who refers to freezing said it needs the 'native quartz.dll' but I'm not sure what that means exactly. There is a quartz in winecfg but is that the same as a 'native quartz.dll'? I'm basically not sure what the 'native' bit means. Do I need to find it from an existing windows installation for example?

Regards Steve

[steveis2]

Hi I'll have to amend that post. It's not just freezing it's taken to crashing completly.

Steve

[Gcenx]

Use winetricks to install quartz

[spoon0042]

... info on which is here: https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks

And yeah "native" in this case means a dll for windows instead of one "builtin" to wine. winetricks is a script that will download and install said dlls such that they work. (Hopefully. winetricks gets bugs too.) Rather than you going to some sketchy dll download site.