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Re: failure of windows program with wine in trixie



tomas@tuxteam.de wrote on 11/11/25 10:32 PM:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 06:10:01PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote:
I have used a particular Windows editor without issues for, literally, more
than a decade on debian stable (and on other distributions before that).

Following the recent change to trixie, when I try to run the program I now see:

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[ZB:2025] vpw 2025_04--05_globalqsl_ADIF_log.adi
00b8:err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x10
0024:err:module:import_dll Library coml2.dll (which is needed by
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by
L"C:\\vedit\\vpw.exe") not found
0024:err:module:loader_init Importing dlls for L"C:\\vedit\\vpw.exe" failed,
status c0000135
[ZB:2025]

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I suspect that the first error is not important, but the failure to find the
necessary DLLs surely is.

Any suggestions as to what I need to do in order to get the program working
again under wine?? (This is actually rather important to me: this is my
go-to editor for many purposes that most other editors don't handle
particularly well.)

Hm. No idea about Wine -- but: reading the man page, there is a bunch of
environment variables which seem to affect how it finds its DLLs (e.g.
WINEPREFIX, WINEDLLOVERRIDES, among possibly others).

Any chance that the upgrade to Trixie "lost" some that environment for
you? (E.g. moving to wayland ignores /etc/X11/Xsession.d, which sometimes
sets environment for the graphical session [1]).

I don't think the upgrade would have changed anything in my personal hierarchy, and WINE (as far as I know) stores all its data in the user's ~/.wine hierarchy.


Do you have access to your old setup?

Yes, I have a ZFS snapshot rooted in my home directory. It seems that lots of values within that hierarchy get changed whenever one executes WINE (mostly just time stamps, most-recent files list, and that sort of thing); a quick comparison of the old ~/.wine hierarchy with the current, post-upgrade, ~/.wine hierarchy doesn't show any changes that look like they're important.

I've posted the question to the forum at winehq (as far as I can tell, there isn't an e-mail reflector for WINE help). I am hopeful that one of the experts there will be able to solve the problem pretty quickly, once a moderator allows the post from a new user.

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