Problems with two apps

jeffneedle · Post by **jeffneedle** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:31 am

I'm using Wine on a Ubuntu 10.04 box.

I'm having problems with two apps. If it's okay, I'll describe both
problems here and see if there's some insight to be gained.

1. I have a free app called cslesson. It prepares lessons for
Christian Science students. The install goes just fine, but when I try
to run the app, I get a "File not found" error. Since the app is free,
I've uploaded it to http://www.box.com/s/0mkqyx5l0t3vslvvb9dy and hope
someone will take a moment to download it -- a little more than 2 meg --
and see if some insight can be gained.

2. The more difficult problem is with a commercial product called
Concord. It's also a Christian Science-oriented app. It allows you to
enter a search term and it searches the corpus of Christian Science
literature for hits. The behavior is so strange. I can enter a search
term, it then displays -- correctly -- the titles that contain that
search term, with page numbers correctly displayed. But when I click on
the link, a completely irrelevant page opens in the book itself. Just
bizarre! For the record, the app works just fine under both CrossOver
and VirtualBox. It's only under Wine that it misbehaves. I wonder if
anyone has some idea about this kind of error.

Thanks.

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:11 am

jeffneedle wrote:I'm having problems with two apps. If it's okay, I'll describe both
problems here and see if there's some insight to be gained.

Please create separate threads for each problem.

You didn't say what version of Wine you're using. If it's not 1.4, upgrade. If the apps don't work in 1.4, post terminal output. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

jeffneedle · Post by **jeffneedle** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:03 pm

Yes, using 1.4.

I started cslesson from a terminal window, and this helped. I got an error message

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\cslesson.exe"

I have no idea what the L is for in this command line, but the problem emerges rather clearly. cslesson is not in the system32 folder, but in the Program Files folder.

Any thoughts on how to change where Wine is looking for the program?

Thanks again.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:26 pm

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:03 PM, jeffneedle <[email protected]> wrote:

Yes, using 1.4.

I started cslesson from a terminal window, and this helped. I got an error message

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\cslesson.exe"

I have no idea what the L is for in this command line, but the problem emerges rather clearly. cslesson is not in
the system32 folder, but in the Program Files folder.

Any thoughts on how to change where Wine is looking for the program?

How are you starting the program? You first have to change to the
directory where the file is located and then run it.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal has more information on
running programs through the console/terminal.

James

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:27 pm

Is it this program?

http://christianscience.org/CSLessons.htm

As I noticed, this program is too old and uses old Visual Basic libraries (1998), such as vbrun300.dll, cmdialog.vbx and blaster.vbx

Anyway it runs fine on Windows XP, and missing those files (listed) in linux.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:32 pm

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Alex_G <[email protected]> wrote:

Is it this program?

http://christianscience.org/CSLessons.htm

As I noticed, this program is too old and uses old Visual Basic libraries (1998), such as vbrun300.dll, cmdialog.vbx and blaster.vbx

Anyway it runs fine on Windows XP, and missing those files (listed) in linux.

Winetricks should be able to install vbrun300

winetricks vb3run

John

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:36 pm

Yes, even with all those files placed to folder with CSLesson.exe it gives same error in message box: File Not Found

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:39 pm

Maybe the program missing some registry entry with the path or value

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:43 pm

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Alex_G <[email protected]> wrote:

Yes, even with all those files placed to folder with CSLesson.exe it gives same error in message box: File Not
Found :?

Start over with a fresh wineprefix and load vb3run before installing
the program as it may need them just to install.

James

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:04 pm

Alex_G wrote:Yes, even with all those files placed to folder with CSLesson.exe it gives same error in message box: File Not Found

What is the exact command you are using to start it?

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:23 pm

Sorry, I'm not a TS, I'm just trying to help him ))

With a small investigation

I see this the program runs in Windows XP under ntvdm.exe (16 bit virtual machine) as child process.
So, could it be run in Wine at all?

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:32 pm

Oops, made mistakes in my prev.post )

dimesio wrote:
Alex_G wrote:Yes, even with all those files placed to folder with CSLesson.exe it gives same error in message box: File Not Found
What is the exact command you are using to start it?

If about me, tried to run via with terminal, exactly from folder where program is. And via Q4Wine from clean prefix and from prefix with VB3RUN installed. And via file-browser (dolphin) -> open with Wine by default.
Same effect.

Seems the problem is that the program is 16 bit.

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:56 pm

Though, no.
Looks like Wine can run 16 bit apps with winevdm...

jeffneedle · Post by **jeffneedle** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:14 pm

Whew! Lots of reading.

I've tried the various things offered here, and no dice. I guess I'll stick with VirtualBox for now -- the app runs well there.

Thanks to everyone. If there are any other suggestions, I'll be glad to have them.

Best.