GSP Family Tree fails at startup missing DLL?

[jl]

I have an old (Windows 95 era) genealogy program "GSP Family Tree"; this runs in later versions of Windows (using Windows 95 compatibility mode) but I'm having problems with it in Wine.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and have tried first with Wine 1.2 and now with wine 1.3.17
The installer runs okay and creates the program directory on the Wine C: drive, and I have used winecfg to set Windows 95 mode for the executable. When I try to launch the application, it appears to start correctly, but then immediately there is a pop-up message: "Error while initialising!" As soon as I dismiss this pop-up, the application disappears (crashes).
I've run from the console, and see a message: "fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100". At http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo I see "An application may not work because Wine doesn't yet fully implement one of the DLL files the application is trying to use. If you encounter a DLL not found error, or see a lot of "FIXME:" messages while running the application in Wine, this is likely the case. When this occurs, you can try using native (non-Wine) DLL files in place of Wine's builtin ones. Check the AppDB page for the program. There may be special configuration options or instructions for installing native DLL files there that you can try to get the application working.", so I'm guessing my problem is most likely a missing DLL, but how do I found out which DLL is needed?
I've checked the AppDB, and found no entries for my application.
I've run WINEDEBUG, but I don't understand the output. (I'd post it here, but I can't figure out how to attach the .tar.gz, and the uncompressed log is around 7Mb)
What should I be looking for that would help me find out which DLL is causing the problem? (Or would indicate that the problem lies elsewhere.)

[vitamin]

Post complete terminal output of the program you trying to run, without any WINEDEBUG flags. If it's too big, please use pastebin.

[jl]

My terminal session looks like this:
james@james-laptop:~$ wine start 'c:/Family/family.exe' &> /tmp/famlog.txt
james@james-laptop:~$

And /tmp/famlog.txt only contains a single line:
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100

[vitamin]

james@james-laptop:~$ wine start 'c:/Family/family.exe' &> /tmp/famlog.txt

This won't work. "start" program sans a separate process. You have to do something like this:

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wine 'c:\Family\family.exe' &> /tmp/famlog.txt

Also note back-slashes instead of forward slashes. MS for whatever reason decided to be different.

[jl]

Strange. I tried your suggestion, but this time the log file is totally empty (0 bytes); not even the "fixme" entry appears.

[jjmckenzie]

On 4/26/11 6:14 PM, vitamin wrote:

jl wrote:

james@james-laptop:~$ wine start 'c:/Family/family.exe'&> /tmp/famlog.txt

This won't work. "start" program sans a separate process. You have to do something like this:

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wine 'c:\Family\family.exe'&> /tmp/famlog.txt



Also note back-slashes instead of forward slashes. MS for whatever reason decided to be different.

Also, error messages go to the STDERR queue. I use:

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cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Family
wine family.exe & > /tmp/famlog.txt 2>&1

Catches all of the output....

BTW, most fixme's can be safely ignored.

James McKenzie

James McKenzie

[vitamin]

James would you read what he posted? Your command is bogus.

[vitamin]

James, Just in case you didn’t get what I'm talking about: "&>" (no space) is NOT the same as "& >" (with space).

[jl]

In the end I gave up with Wine. I used VirtualBox to host XP, and then used Windows compatibility options.

[saradanes99]

The good news is that you can do your family search yourself. If you need the help, seek for some useful websites; they offer you good tips to solve the problem in the quickest way.