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An actual real video of WINE anytime I attempt to use it to run a windows executable. (cdn.transfem.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seriously though. It never works for me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bottles, like most related things, is based on WINE. DLL hell is real. Source: Been there, done that, gave up after an hour (not counting installing Bottles, which came with its own problems unfortunately.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I know. There isn't much context, so it could've been wine and winetricks UX, which people do have trouble with sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's a dependencies tab which is a lil confusing but it fixes all your problems in a few clicks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh, believe me, I found that and installed everything except the kitchen sink (which took a ridiculously long time with a non-rotating throbber and no progress bars), but the DLLs and OCXs the program insisted on having were not in any of those.

I then found and downloaded what I thought might be the right files from somewhere online (ClamAV said they were clean of malware at least) and put them in the right place in the directory structure. Some of those were detected and I made progress.

Others weren't registered with the, well, registry properly and regsvr32 on the command line part of Bottles didn't seem to be working for at least one of them. Maybe I needed specific options or was doing it wrong, but no error messages were happening.

Maybe I was only one step away from getting it working, but there was no way to know and I had no idea what to try next, so I gave up.

I mean, I could request those obscure DLLs be added to the Bottles dependencies repository in the hope that that might make it work, but that could be a long wait, and it was a crappy little Windows game I just wanted muck around with again and would have gotten bored with after a few days.