Goesta,
Thanks :) Let me see if I can help you out a bit: Make sure the DLLs that come with the application are registered (not just in the same directory) for the application to work. Past that, the application requires several Microsoft components that are typically not part of Windows (most of them also require registration). There is a full list at the bottom of the FAQ with the necessary files and components for the application to run. If you need any of the files listed let me know. As for the IPDK, I'm not sure why it came up since the application isn't dependant on it. To answer your Mono question, the application is written in VB 6.0, not VB.Net. VB.Net will run with Mono however VB 6.0 will not. After I've had a long break, I may spend some of my sleepless nights trying to rework the application to .NET and GTK# so that it will run with Mono, but I will be truthful in saying that I have a lot of stuff that comes before it. The application would require an almost complete rewrite to work with .NET and the thought of translating 32,000+ lines of code isn't an altogether happy one. If you need any more info, I'd be happy to help - I would love to see it working easily under Wine by the time I hit final. -Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Goesta Smekal - IT executive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:06 AM Subject: [xmail] Re: XMail Manager LE Beta 1 Released > Dear Mike, dear List, > this is a first shot for XMail Manager LE under Wine/Linux: > > (short version: took some work, didn't work ;-) ) > > my system: Debian-testing, Linux kernel 2.6.6-1-k7 (from Debian), AMD > Athlon(tm) XP 2400+, 256 MB RAM (sorry for the '(tm)', just copy/pasted > from /proc/cpuinfo ;-) ) > > wine: > libwine 0.0.20040615-1 Windows Emulator (Library) > libwine-cil 0.3-3 WINE bindings for Mono > libwine-print 0.0.20040615-1 Windows Emulator (Printing Module) > wine 0.0.20040615-1 Windows Emulator (Binary Emulator) > wine-utils 0.0.20040615-1 Windows Emulator (Utilities) > winesetuptk 0.7-1 Windows Emulator (Configuration and Setup To > > Installer did not work: after checking Windows version and other stuff, > a window showed up telling me: '1155: File C:\Temp\INSTMSIA.EXE not > found' and wine failed with return code 130 > > I tried to install the software on a WinNT 4.0 SP6a test machine, setup > worked. Starting the app did not.(yes, I _did_ read the sysreq) So I > took the content of the dir 'Alouria\XMail Manager LE', stuffed it into > a .zip and unpacked it in the wine dir. > > Firing up XmailMgrLE.exe directly did not work because of some missing > ..dlls: > > MSVBVM60.DLL was missing, I downloaded it from www.dll-files.com and put > it in wine's 'C:\Windows\System' > > VB6DE.DLL from > http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/IPDK5down.aspx > > aka 'Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 International Package and Deployment Kit > (IPDK)' > http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60ent/ipdkeng/6.0/W9XNT4/EN-US/ipdk.exe > > after a funky error message, it created a directory 'IPDK' in the wine > root directory (as Windows would call it: 'C:\') containing some further > dirs for some languages. From there I copied all .dlls to wine's > 'C:\Windows\System' directory. > > OLEAUT32.DLL resides in wine's 'Windows\System' but was searched for in > 'C:\Program Files\Alouria\XMail Manager LE' so I copied that there. > > after all that done, 'Wine exited with a successful status' but no > window :-( just as on the NT machine ... > > Installing Windows Installer in wine fails due to some funky permission > problems that are not realy there according to the filesystem ... I'm > working on it ... > > BTW: It seems to be written in VB. I am neither programmer, nor Windows > expert, but could it be ported to mono > (http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html) ? 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