On Tuesday 21 August 2001 09:32 am, Olaf Marzocchi methodically organized electrons to state: > At 07.43 21/08/01, you wrote: > > > I have Codeweavers-wine installed on my MDK8.0 and I want to upgrade it > > > because a new WINE version has been released. Can I download WINE (that > > > >I just did a wine upgrade from winehq.com. Codeweavers seems to just be > >another variant of the stuff that comes from winehq. I opted for the > >unstripped .bz2 snapshot, about 4 megs or so in size, and installation > >is fairly straightforward. But there are several versions of builds, > >stable and not as stable, stuff built from the latest CVS, or of course > >there is the option of building it yourself - and it's not all that > >complicated to do that. > > When I installed codewevaers I chose it because I wasn't able to write the > config file myself. Once solved that problem and once got wine to start > every time I click on an exec., I will use only winehq. Set up a mime type for .exe and .EXE and link it to wine. That's all Codeweavers does. > If you tell me how to solve those 2 problems, I can download winehq. > The config file semms rather complicated, most of all the DLL list. Is > there a tool to write it? codeweavers had one. > Second problem: strangely some time ago I was able to launch an EXE by > simply clicking on it, now not anymore. > The wine config file has changed from the time Codeweavers did their program. they also use a config file for each user instaed of a global config file; the local one is the one their setup tool edits. You can "upgrade the Codeweavers install with a newer version of wine, only remember to copy the new config file to your home directory. The changes in teh file are related to DirectX support IIRC. Hoyt
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