Can't run Foxit Reader on Wine 9.0 – mfc140u.dll error

[Extrejoind]

I'm trying to run Foxit Reader (latest Windows version) on Wine 9.0, using Ubuntu 22.04. The installation completes fine, but when I try to launch the app, it immediately crashes.

The terminal shows:

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err:module:import_dll Library mfc140u.dll not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls failed, status c0000135

So far I've tried:

Installing vcrun2015 and mfc140 using winetricks

Creating a clean wineprefix

Switching Windows version to 10 in winecfg

Still, same error. I just want to open PDFs with Foxit because it's fast and familiar. Has anyone had success running it under Wine 9.0?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Extrejoind]

No one knows how to solve this.slice master I'm really stuck.

[rdepaoli]

No one knows how to solve this.slice master I'm really stuck.

Good morning Extrejoind.

You might want to try and install other versions of vcrun, too.

Try

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (v10), plus

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 (v11), plus

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 (v12), plus

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022

and see after each step, if your mfc140u issue disappeared.

Make sure to install 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Another thought:
If you don't get anywhere, you could use a trial version of CrossOver aka cxoffice by CodeWeavers (company involved in the development of wine).
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... e-for-wine

They do have a number of recipes for Foxit. Try one of those and see, what runtimes they use...

I hope this helps.

Note:
I'm not affiliated with CodeWeavers, just a user of both, wine and CrossOver/cxoffice.

[rdepaoli]

This was created by mistake, apologies.

[desessarts]

I can see this mfc140u.dll in several libraries

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$ sudo winetricks --self-update
[sudo] Mot de passe de gg : 
Executing cd /usr/bin
Executing cd /tmp/winetricks.TMrEwiMq
Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks to /tmp/winetricks.TMrEwiMq
--2025-06-23 14:47:09--  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
Résolution de raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)… 2606:50c0:8001::154, 2606:50c0:8002::154, 2606:50c0:8003::154, ...
Connexion à raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|2606:50c0:8001::154|:443… connecté.
requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse… 200 OK
Taille : 797287 (779K) [text/plain]
Sauvegarde en : « winetricks »

winetricks                                           100%[=====================================================================================================================>] 778,60K  2,35MB/s    ds 0,3s    

2025-06-23 14:47:09 (2,35 MB/s) — « winetricks » sauvegardé [797287/797287]

Executing cd /home/gg
Executing mv /tmp/winetricks.TMrEwiMq/winetricks /usr/bin/winetricks.update
Executing rmdir /tmp/winetricks.TMrEwiMq
Executing cp /usr/bin/winetricks /usr/bin/winetricks.bak
Executing chmod -x /usr/bin/winetricks.bak
Executing mv /usr/bin/winetricks.update /usr/bin/winetricks
Executing chmod +x /usr/bin/winetricks
Executing cd /usr/bin
------------------------------------------------------
warning: Update finished! The current version is 20250102-next - sha256sum: cad07aa4609655d3197b044549a9bb5498d9fd43a6f9b22c6927e18c4f3f669e. Use 'winetricks --update-rollback' to return to the previous version.
------------------------------------------------------
gg@debian:~ 7s $ WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_reno winetricks dlls list | grep mfc140u
Executing cd /usr/bin
vcrun2015                Visual C++ 2015 libraries (concrt140.dll,mfc140.dll,mfc140u.dll,mfcm140.dll,mfcm140u.dll,msvcp140.dll,msvcp140_1.dll,msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll,vcamp140.dll,vccorlib140.dll,vcomp140.dll,vcruntime140.dll,vcruntime140_1.dll) (Microsoft, 2015) [downloadable]
vcrun2017                Visual C++ 2017 libraries (concrt140.dll,mfc140.dll,mfc140u.dll,mfcm140.dll,mfcm140u.dll,msvcp140.dll,msvcp140_1.dll,msvcp140_2.dll,msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll,vcamp140.dll,vccorlib140.dll,vcomp140.dll,vcruntime140.dll,vcruntime140_1.dll) (Microsoft, 2017) [downloadable]
vcrun2019                Visual C++ 2015-2019 libraries (concrt140.dll,mfc140.dll,mfc140u.dll,mfcm140.dll,mfcm140u.dll,msvcp140.dll,msvcp140_1.dll,msvcp140_2.dll,msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll,msvcp140_codecvt_ids.dll,vcamp140.dll,vccorlib140.dll,vcomp140.dll,vcruntime140.dll,vcruntime140_1.dll (Microsoft, 2019) [downloadable]
vcrun2022                Visual C++ 2015-2022 libraries (concrt140.dll,mfc140.dll,mfc140chs.dll,mfc140cht.dll,mfc140deu.dll,mfc140enu.dll,mfc140esn.dll,mfc140fra.dll,mfc140ita.dll,mfc140jpn.dll,mfc140kor.dll,mfc140rus.dll,mfc140u.dll,mfcm140.dll,mfcm140u.dll,msvcp140.dll,msvcp140_1.dll,msvcp140_2.dll,msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll,msvcp140_codecvt_ids.dll,vcamp140.dll,vccorlib140.dll,vcomp140.dll,vcruntime140.dll,vcruntime140_1.dll) (Microsoft, 2022) [downloadable]
gg@debian:~ 2s $ 

[desessarts]

so try either

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winetricks -q vcrun2015  

or

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winetricks -q vcrun2017

or

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winetricks -q vcrun2019

or

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winetricks -q vcrun2022

[rdepaoli]

This was created by mistake, apologies.

Here the intended post...

The Foxit version you are using is 2024.1.0.23997? Or something else?

For this version, MS Visual C++ redist 2015 (14.0), x86 & AMD64, build 14.0.23026 works.

I can see mfc140u.dll under

• c:/windows/syswow64/ , and

• c:/Program Files (x86)/Foxit Software/Foxit PDF Reader/

and Foxit starts just fine...