Problem with FlexLM licensing

[John Williams (PetaLogix)]

Paul Jackson-8 wrote:

Dan Kegel wrote:

The key to getting MXE III's starter version
working is to use native msvcrt. (Our fread
has a bug in it when reading binary files
as ascii, it seems. I'll file a bug soon.) So try
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun6
and then set msvcrt to native in winecfg.
Let me know whether that lets you get MXE III's
starter edition going.
- Dan

You're a star, Dan; it works.

A bit late to the party but I'm trying to get MXE 6.3 going under most
recent (v1.0 Wine release). After convincing the flexlm to work, I'm
hitting the following when I try to fire up the main vsim app:

can't find package Itcl while executing
"package require Itcl" invoked from within ...

Now this is itcl within wine (not the Itcl / winecfg issue).

The layout of the MXE app tree is like this:

Modeltech_xe_starter/win32xoem/
(the main modelsim .exes are here)

|-- itcl3.2
|-- itk3.2

(a bunch of itcl related dlls are down in here)

It seems that the vsim.exe is unable to find the dlls exporting the itcl
functionality.

Any clues on how I start debugging this, or things to try? I did the
obvious, adding these dirs to PATH - but it's years since I did anything
serious under windows/DOS - is there an LD_LIBRARY_PATH equivalent perhaps?

Thanks for any suggestions,

John

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[fpraden]

I have the same problem. copying the dll to system32 and/or win32xoem don't fix this problem...

[vitamin]

I have the same problem. copying the dll to system32 and/or win32xoem don't fix this problem...

What are you running and how exactly are you starting it?

[fpraden]

I'm on debian sid

wine version : 1.0

env WINEPREFIX="/home/flo/.wine" WINEDEBUG=warn+all wine "C:\Devel\FPGA\Simul\ModelSim\Modeltech_xe_starter\win32xoem\modelsim.exe" >modelsim.out 2>modelsim.err

there is a lot of debug in modelsim.err, but none show me the error that I could correct

[David Gerard]

2008/7/10 fpraden <[email protected]>:

I have the same problem. copying the dll to system32 and/or win32xoem don't fix this problem...

Various versions of FlexLM do work to a greater or lesser extent in
Wine, on a quick search of the appDB.

Since the stuff managed by FlexLM is typically expensive and
well-supported commercial software, it would probably be well worth
your while contacting the app vendor about getting stuff working
better in Wine, even if not as a full official platform.

(Certainly everything I've ever been responsible for that used FlexLM
was pricey enough for pretty near direct-to-developer support ...)

It may or may not also be worth contacting the bit of Macrovision that
make FlexLM about getting it to play nicer with Wine. More platforms =
more sales, and FlexLM runs well(-ish) on most commercially-used
platforms I can think of.


- d.

[David Gerard]

2008/7/16 David Gerard <[email protected]>:

It may or may not also be worth contacting the bit of Macrovision that
make FlexLM about getting it to play nicer with Wine. More platforms =
more sales, and FlexLM runs well(-ish) on most commercially-used
platforms I can think of.

It also occurs to me that one of said highly supported platforms is
Linux itself! So if you can set up FlexLM on the host box and get it
to serve the licenses on its preferred port, you should be able to
drop the licenses into place on the Linux instance of FlexLM. This is
of course fiddly, but not much more fiddly than most FlexLM
administration.


- d.

[John Drescher]

It also occurs to me that one of said highly supported platforms is
Linux itself! So if you can set up FlexLM on the host box and get it
to serve the licenses on its preferred port, you should be able to
drop the licenses into place on the Linux instance of FlexLM. This is
of course fiddly, but not much more fiddly than most FlexLM
administration.

I know for a fact that this works. Because we have a linux FlexLM
server that serves out licenses for a windows app.

John

[Timeout]

Where do you get your Linux FlexLM server?

It's not that you are really deciding when you buy a software.

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Timeout <[email protected]> wrote:

Where do you get your Linux FlexLM server?

It's not that you are really deciding when you buy a software.

We obtained the binary package years ago but I believe the following
link will provide the latest:

http://www.globes.com/support/fnp_utili ... #downloads

John

[Timeout]

Thank you very much! that's great!!

I made a bookmark, I hope I will be able to digest the instructions someday because the problems with the license manager are the last thing preventing the use of my software in a productive situation (even if not perfect).

I guess Suse Linux Entreprise Desktop could match the entry for Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

[Uwe Bonnes]

Timeout> Where do you get your Linux FlexLM server? It's not that you
Timeout> are really deciding when you buy a software.

It's even harder, if there is a free Windows version with a windows
only license...


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[David Gerard]

2008/7/16 Uwe Bonnes <[email protected]>:

Timeout> Where do you get your Linux FlexLM server? It's not that you
Timeout> are really deciding when you buy a software.

It's even harder, if there is a free Windows version with a windows
only license...

I would have thought the FlexLM license line would work from any
installation of FlexLM.

But yes, a lot of the annoyances involved in administering FlexLM stem
from it being software the vertical-market software developers license
themselves, and it ain't cheap. Which leads to the even worse option,
when the developers hand-roll their own license manager ...


- d.