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Re: Wine 990103 and PowerPoint 97
> I think Wine is ON-Topic on this list !
Well, so I'll describe my experinces. I tried to build Wine from sources -
it didn't work at all. Seems that pgcc is to blame - manuals hint that
only gcc 2.7-2.8 will work. Since I didn't want to downgrade my compiler
just for it, I took .deb from http://www.debian.org/~crow/ and installed
it. The maintainer of it promises to update the .deb weekly, so it may be
a good place to bookmark.
The it worked and launched solitaire :) Winword 6 didn't work - it said my
version of windows is not OK (note, it didn't crash, so maybe just
language setting are wrong). Progman, etc. also seem to work.
So maybe the problem with wine not working on ANY app is just in compiler
(well, still think that the problem is _in Wine_, even then, because good
program should work with any compiler, but I do not expect such a quality
from development version). Try looking at .deb (alien should help those
with RH systems).
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