projects.Linux.Wine

I will collect my notes about running Wine and CrossOver Office here.

A long time ago, I wrote how to run Visio 4.1 Technical with wine 980822, see screenshot. Next version, 980927 had this patch included! I guess that I become wine contributor :-).
Back then, if you wanted to use wine with comdlg32 patch, you had to start it with wine -dll -comdlg32 visio32.exe so that you could use open and save.

And now, to more recent developments...

How to install ActiveState perl under Wine?

I wanted to run Win32::OLE on my development machine which is Debian Linux. This tutorial is based on CrossOver Office Standard 4.1, but it should also work with Wine.

Download and install Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable for Windows 95, 98, and Me
Download latest Active State Perl for Windows in .msi format. I used ActivePerl-5.8.6.811-MSWin32-x86-122208.msi.

Note: I tried to install .zip format, but it didn't work for me. That's why you need first to install MSI 2.0 update.

Start installation:

$ /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine "C:~WB~WINDOWS~WB~SYSTEM~WB~msiexec.exe" /i \
	ActivePerl-5.8.6.811-MSWin32-x86-122208.msi

After a while, it should be over.

Now you have perl installed in ~/.cxoffice/dotwine/fake_windows/Perl/. Try to run it:

$ uname -a
Linux llin 2.6.10-1-686 #1 Tue Jan 18 04:34:19 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
$ /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine "c:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" -v

You should get something like:

This is perl, v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall

Binary build 811 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Dec 13 2004 09:52:01

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

That's it! It wasn't hard at all.

And, now assorted list of links to get you started with Excel and OLE automation.