On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no> wrote: > I just tried installing gdiplus using winetricks, on a debian testing > system. > > This failed, as winetricks tried to copy stuff into windows/system32, > where I happen to have Windows/System32. > > I first tried making symlinks windows->Windows and system32->System32. > winetricks would run, but the app using gdiplus.dll now failed to find it. > The file was in Windows/System32 as expected. > > So I removed my links, and used search&replace on winetricks, to replace all > occurences of "windows" and "system32" with captialized versions. Then I ran > winetricks again. The installation succeeded this time too, but the app > could still not find the dll in System32. > > I finally gave up and copied the dll into the directory where the app > is installed. This worked, but is problematic; it will have to be done for > every app that uses this dll.
Why did you rename system32? Are you linking your ~/.wine/drive_c to a real windows installation? -- -Austin
