Beg pardon if this is not the right place to ask this question -- I
was just playing around to see if the installation of Dragon
NaturallySpeaking on my winxp work machine could be cajoled into
starting under pure:dyne with WINE. It does attempt to load the
executable but I've quickly replicated Windows DLL Hell. I suspect I
can get around it by setting $LIBPATH, but I'm not sure if what I'm
doing is reasonable in the first place -- that is, running a program
that was installed under Windows, just using Linux instead. Maybe I
should run the installer in Linux?
(Just to be clear -- I mounted c: using "sudo mount -type ntfs-3g /
dev/sda1 /mnt/win," then cd /path/to/blah and ./natspeak.exe. Wine
kicked in nicely, which I was happy to see, but then I got a lot of
import_dll errors.)
It's kind of a key test for me because I depend on voice dictation
software and if this works, I would be one step closer to breaking my
dependence on Apple* (which I would rather like to do, as I'm no fan
of the closed architectures that are making them piles of money at
the moment).
* I'm also watching the firewire discussion closely for this reason
also.
If there is another place I should ask, let me know and I'll take the
question there -- thanks --
James
: H. James Harkins
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