Can't install vb6run

[Superphilipp]

Hi there!

I am trying to get Minesweeper X to run under Wine. I am running:

Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon 64-bit
wine-1.4.1

This is what happens:

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$ wine c:/mines_x
err:module:import_dll Library MSVBVM60.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\mines_x.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\mines_x.exe" failed, status c0000135

So obviously I need to install The VB6 runtime. Hence I install winetricks and do:

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$ winetricks vb6run
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You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Executing w_do_call vb6run
Executing load_vb6run
Executing wine /home/philipp/.cache/winetricks/vb6run/VB6.0-KB290887-X86.exe /T:C:\windows\Temp\_vb6run /c
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x0000000d at address 0x7bc4717b (thread 0028), starting debugger...
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x7bc493a0
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Note: command 'wine /home/philipp/.cache/winetricks/vb6run/VB6.0-KB290887-X86.exe /T:C:\windows\Temp\_vb6run /c' returned status 5.  Aborting.
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This happens to me whatever I do. I tried a fresh wineprefix (32-bit and 64-bit), but installing the dll fails every time.

The really weird part is that it works on my 32-bit Linux Mint inside VirtualBox (Win7 host) without problems. I guess 64-bit could be the source of the problem, but I really don't feel like installing a 32-bit OS just for this. Also, other people seem to manage this on 64-bit Linux.

What else can I try?

Thank you very much!

[dimesio]

Your Wine version is old and no longer supported; upgrade. You should also make sure you have the latest winetricks.

You can create a 32 bit wineprefix without installing a 32 bit OS. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#32_bit_wineprefix

[Superphilipp]

THANK YOU! That solved my problem instantly.

I hadn't guessed that there would be a 2 years old version of wine on the most recent Mint repository. Wouldn't they just update to the most recent stable release?

[Bob Wya]

This happens to me whatever I do. I tried a fresh wineprefix (32-bit and 64-bit), but installing the dll fails every time.

Don't get caught out by the classic Wine Multi-lib/Multi-arch "gotcha". Quoting from the link dimesio gave to you:

Do not manually create the directory before running that command; Wine must create it.

So make sure the final directory of Wineprefix path does not exist before you use the 32-bit Wineprefix.

If things have worked you should see something like...

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ls ~/.wine32
 ls: cannot access /home/robert/.wine32: No such file or directory
export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32
winecfg
'ls' -ahl ~/.wine32/drive_c/
 drwxr-xr-x  4 robert users 4.0K Feb  8  2013 Program Files/
 drwxr-xr-x  4 robert users 4.0K Feb 28 23:36 users/
 drwxr-xr-x 17 robert users 4.0K Jan 14 00:03 windows/

[tatsu]

I've tried everything on this page : http://askubuntu.com/questions/127848/w ... -pkcs11-so
and on this page : http://askubuntu.com/questions/177192/h ... ine-prefix

no matter what I do when i run a winetricks command i get the error.

I'm on ubuntu 14.04 64 bit wine 1.7.30

[tatsu]

the above viewtopic.php?p=92768&sid=22a7a663818c0 ... f7e#p92768 worked. thanks.