Programming with dBASE - Program write in dBase running in wine?

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Program write in dBase running in wine?

Dario Basso Cardoso

2005-10-07, 3:26 am

Hi,
How i do for my programs in dBase run in Wine enviroment for linux?
Thanks,
dario

David Ball

2005-10-07, 3:26 am

Hello Dario

*******I ASSUME YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH LINUX

To run dBASE under Wine:
Your Linux will require a GUI desktop such as KDE or Gnome
Make sure that Wine is up to date. Many Linux distributions install with an
old version - check the www.winehq.org website for updates.
Make sure that Wine is working properly on the machine - test one of the
popular programs listed in the Application Database at wineHQ.org to ensure
that it is working okay.
Install dBASE from the CD - I was not able to get Wine to run the main
insaller; I had to navigate to the install folder and run setup from there.
Then it should run!

I cannot help further than this because I have not been successful recently
using this configuration:
-installation on a machine with no Windows partition
-using FreeBSD 5.3

For me, the dBASE Plus installer will not function properly (dB2K either) -
some errors come up during installation regarding paths.
I try to run it anyway but it hangs on the dBASE splash screen.
The BDE Administrator will run.

3 or 4 years ago, I was (mostly) successful in getting dB2K to run in Wine
under these conditions:
-it was on a multi-boot machine so Wine had access to the native Windows
dlls
-it was using Mandrake (now called Mandriva) 8.2 Linux
I posted some results on the dbase newsgroups at that time. You may be able
to locate the posts with google.

Good luck
David Ball
www.ChelseaData.ca

"Dario Basso Cardoso" < cardosodario@itelefo
nica.com.br> wrote in message
news:BeQJIsSyFHA.1412@news-server...
> Hi,
> How i do for my programs in dBase run in Wine enviroment for linux?
> Thanks,
> dario

Dario Basso Cardoso

2005-10-07, 3:26 am

Hi,

I use FreeBSD 5.4 with KDE Desktop.
The Wine is last version.
My instalation of wine is no windows partition and i run the NOTEPAD.EXE
normally. I instaled runtime dBase 2.01 normally but when i run the
little test.exe without access database i receive error. I put the
runtime same directory off aplication and i receive error.
I like runing must dBase application and not dBase development and my
application use psqlodbc for access PostgreSQL.

Is possible?

Thanks,

Dario.

David Ball escreveu:
> Hello Dario
>
> *******I ASSUME YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH LINUX
>
> To run dBASE under Wine:
> Your Linux will require a GUI desktop such as KDE or Gnome
> Make sure that Wine is up to date. Many Linux distributions install with an
> old version - check the www.winehq.org website for updates.
> Make sure that Wine is working properly on the machine - test one of the
> popular programs listed in the Application Database at wineHQ.org to ensure
> that it is working okay.
> Install dBASE from the CD - I was not able to get Wine to run the main
> insaller; I had to navigate to the install folder and run setup from there.
> Then it should run!
>
> I cannot help further than this because I have not been successful recently
> using this configuration:
> -installation on a machine with no Windows partition
> -using FreeBSD 5.3
>
> For me, the dBASE Plus installer will not function properly (dB2K either) -
> some errors come up during installation regarding paths.
> I try to run it anyway but it hangs on the dBASE splash screen.
> The BDE Administrator will run.
>
> 3 or 4 years ago, I was (mostly) successful in getting dB2K to run in Wine
> under these conditions:
> -it was on a multi-boot machine so Wine had access to the native Windows
> dlls
> -it was using Mandrake (now called Mandriva) 8.2 Linux
> I posted some results on the dbase newsgroups at that time. You may be able
> to locate the posts with google.
>
> Good luck
> David Ball
> www.ChelseaData.ca
>
>
> "Dario Basso Cardoso" < cardosodario@itelefo
nica.com.br> wrote in message
> news:BeQJIsSyFHA.1412@news-server...
>
>
>
>

David Ball

2005-10-07, 3:26 am

> I use FreeBSD 5.4 with KDE Desktop.
> The Wine is last version.
> My instalation of wine is no windows partition and i run the NOTEPAD.EXE
> normally. I instaled runtime dBase 2.01 normally but when i run the
> little test.exe without access database i receive error. I put the
> runtime same directory off aplication and i receive error.
> I like runing must dBase application and not dBase development and my
> application use psqlodbc for access PostgreSQL.
>
> Is possible?

Is there an error message?
Is it a dBASE error or a Wine error or an OS error?

The only thing I can suggest here is try switching the dlls, if possible.
Wine gives you the option somewhere of using theirs (built-in) or whatever
comes with the application (native). I was not successful here, and I don't
even know if I was doing it correctly. Whatever I did, it still hung. Some
errors that I was getting indicated a problem with oleaut32.dll and I tried
switching but it did not help. The most recent version of Wine claims to
have some ole improvements but I don't know the details.

I'm kinda worried about the odbc stuff - I don't know if Wine can do that
yet. Hoepfully, I am wrong, but I would start with some dbf tables first and
work up to odbc.

Good luck
David Ball
www.ChelseaData.ca

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