Help. dll not found

kgriff · Post by **kgriff** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:45 pm

I am trying to get a program, Nova Development Photo Explosion, running under Wine for my wife. I was unable to install the program from CD under Wine. I could see the installer pop-up begin, then I'd get a black screen. ESC would exit Wine and dump me back to my terminal. There were no terminal messages.

I installed the program in Windows, then moved the program folder and all registry entries to Wine. As near as I can tell so far, all .dll's for the program reside in the program directory.

Now, when I execute
wine "c:\\Program Files\\xxxxxxxx.exe"
I get a whole list of errors in terminal that go something like,

err:module:import_dll Library GViewer.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Nova Development\\Photo Explosion Deluxe\\Ipe40.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library IpeFrame.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Nova Development\\Photo Explosion Deluxe\\Ipe40.exe") not found

I believe, although I haven't examined every one, that this list contains every .dll in the program directory.

At this point, how do get the program to recognize the location of the .dll's?

Ove Kaaven · Post by **Ove Kaaven** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:09 am

kgriff skrev:

At this point, how do get the program to recognize the location of the .dll's?

"cd" to the program's directory first.

kgriff · Post by **kgriff** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:40 pm

I did as you suggested, but still get the same messages. Anything else I can try?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:39 pm

kgriff wrote:I did as you suggested, but still get the same messages. Anything else I can try?

Which directory are you in? Run 'pwd' to check. Are you sure you have those dlls in that directory? To verify run 'ls -la'.

kgriff · Post by **kgriff** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:49 pm

Well, I got past that issue. The problem turned out to be two Windows native dll's, msc42.dll and msvcp60.dll. I couldn't figure out how to see the whole list of errors in my terminal window. (I'm quite new to Linux and Wine) Once I figured that out, I just worked from the first error down. Once I moved both of those dll's from my windows installation system32 directory to the wine system32 directory, things improved some. Now, when I run the program, it attempts to execute, but then I get a pop up window with,
"Unable to read version information from file C:\Program Files\Nova Development\Photo Explosion Deluxe\Ipe40.exe, insufficient memory or low system resources"

I've seen posts with error messages similar to this one, so I'm now trying to look into the cause of this error.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:54 pm

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:49 PM, kgriff <[email protected]> wrote:

Well, I got past that issue. The problem turned out to be two Windows native dll's, msc42.dll and msvcp60.dll. I couldn't figure out how to see the whole list of errors in my terminal window. (I'm quite new to Linux and Wine) Once I figured that out, I just worked from the first error down. Once I moved both of those dll's from my windows installation system32 directory to the wine system32 directory, things improved some. Now, when I run the program, it attempts to execute, but then I get a pop up window with,
"Unable to read version information from file C:\Program Files\Nova Development\Photo Explosion Deluxe\Ipe40.exe, insufficient memory or low system resources"

I've seen posts with error messages similar to this one, so I'm now trying to look into the cause of this error.

Can you try:
$ wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks vcrun6

And see if things improve?

kgriff · Post by **kgriff** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:16 pm

Unfortunately, winetricks vcrun6 did not change anything. Thanks, though, for the clue to winetricks. I did not know that was out there. Could be pretty useful.