Unable to install visual studio using WINE

sudhanshu · Post by **sudhanshu** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:52 am

I tried to run the setup.exe of the visual c++ using WINE 1.0.1 it runs successfully till the screen where i have to select Visual C++ after that it says
"AN UNEXPECTED ERROR OCCURRED SETUP WILL CLOSE NOW"......at terminal it says "heap nill(0)..."
What should I do??

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:03 am

I tried to run the setup.exe of the visual c++ using WINE 1.0.1 it runs successfully till the screen where i have to select Visual C++ after that it says
"AN UNEXPECTED ERROR OCCURRED SETUP WILL CLOSE NOW"......at terminal it says "heap nill(0)..."
What should I do??

Get rid of wine-1.0.1. That is too old to work with visual studio.
Install the current or recent dev version. The current wine is
wine-1.1.42. Also winetricks will install vs2005trial (180 day full
version) and several other versions of visual studio. And they work
for the most part.

John