Hi, I'm new to wine, and am having a bit of trouble.
I'm trying to run an EXE installer, which starts fine, prompts me for
a few questions, and creates a few directories, but at a certain point
it tries to run a vbs file, which fails.
The attempt to run the .vbs file causes this message to appear in an
alert window:
"There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file"
after which I click OK and there as another window:
"could not execute the external program check64.vbs"
with "check64.vbs" being the name of the file that is part of the installer.
after I click OK the installer exits, and there is no output at the
command line whatsoever:
bash-3.2$ wine ~/Desktop/INSTALL.EXE
bash-3.2$
I've used winetricks to install
vb6run
mfc42
vcrun6 (which I believe is the same as mfc42, but I thought I try and
see if it fixed the problem, with no luck)
wsh56
I'm not sure if this is sufficient to run vbs files.
I have tried:
bash-3.2$ wine wscript test.vbs
which seems to partially work, but I get the error message
there is no script engine for file extension ".vbs"
and my test script doesn't do what I expect, the attempt causes this
to be printed on command line:
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity (0x0,-1,0x0,0x0,0,3,0x0,0,0x0) - stub!
I believe it's a wise installer, and that it's pretty old, so I tried
running it as Windows 95 & 3.1 with no more success. I'm guessing I
need to add some entries into the registry, but as I haven't used
windows in quite a while, and never messed around with the registry
much, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'm running:
bash-3.2$ wine --version
wine-1.2
Installed via MacPorts on Snow Leopard
Running vbscript .vbs file in an EXE
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Afam Agbodike
Running vbscript .vbs file in an EXE
I think it installed it, when I run
bash-3.2$ wine wscript test.vbs
the title of the error window that displays "there is no script engine
for file extension .vbs" is "Windows Script Host".
I think there are some additional config settings required, first to
set the script engine for vbs, then to set WSH to be invoked when a
.vbs file is run from within another program, but I don't know where
to make these config changes.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:11 AM, DanKegel <[email protected]> wrote:
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Afam
bash-3.2$ wine wscript test.vbs
the title of the error window that displays "there is no script engine
for file extension .vbs" is "Windows Script Host".
I think there are some additional config settings required, first to
set the script engine for vbs, then to set WSH to be invoked when a
.vbs file is run from within another program, but I don't know where
to make these config changes.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:11 AM, DanKegel <[email protected]> wrote:
wsh56 would be the right winetricks verb. Disappointing that didn't help.
Are you sure it installed windows script host? Maybe you're still
using builtin wscript.
I wish I had time to try running visual basic scripts in wine
with wsh56, but I'm kind of busy. Maybe somebody else can
give it a shot.
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Afam
