| Gary Dale 2006-07-11, 7:13 pm |
| Ray Turner wrote:
> Found some interesting windows apps - fired up Wine. One app ran just
> fine, another very promising app crashes. Wine complained:
>
> Run Time Error -2147221168(80040150)
> Automation Error
>
>
> Is this something that is fixable?
>
>
Given your detailed report, who knows? 
Wine remains a work in progress because Windows does not have a
complete, published API. Windows does what it does and it is up to the
wine developers to try to figure out what that is.
Many Windows apps seem to rely on some things that are difficult to
duplicate in a different operating system. For example, some want to
access hardware directly or monkey around with the file system. Others
rely on undocumented interfaces.
Personally, I'm impressed that wine works as well as it does.
Anyway, to fix your problem, you need to do some debugging work. This is
a wine-specific issue, so your best bet is to try some of the
wine-specific groups or listservs.
If you are running Sarge, you can also try installing the Etch version
of Wine.
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