Subject: Re: Does CrossOver Office really work ?
To: Marcello Balduccini <marcello.balduccini@ttu.edu>
From: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@engine.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/17/2004 15:51:12
> Has anybody been able to get CrossOver Office to run on NetBSD/i386 1.6.1
> following Todd Vierling's instructions ?
> Here is what's happening to me. After following the instructions from
> http://www.duh.org/cxoffice, I was able to get CrossOver Office 2.0.1
> installed in my home directory. However, any attempt of running
> officesetup failed with the error message "Unable to convert 'c:/' to a
> Unix path".
> Similarly, running regedit gives the following error message:
> Invalid path L"c:\\Windows" for L"windows" directory: does not exist
> Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file.
> This is (supposed to be) '/home/marcy/cxoffice/support/dotwine/config'
> (Notice that the 'L' is *not* a typo: this is what appears on the screen.)
> I am using the file $HOME/cxoffice/support/dotwine/config that is created
> during the installation. I didn't make any changes to it. I am pasting it
> at the end of this message.
> Does anybody have any clue as to what the problem may be ?

Dear Marcello:

With NetBSD-1.6.0 and wine-20021007, I was able to run crossover office
(sort of).  Basically I installed CrossOver office on a SuSE Linux
desktop, and then copied my "fake_windows", "*.reg", "win.ini", and
config to my NetBSD desktop, and it worked with the native NetBSD wine.
I had Microsoft Office 2000 & Visio 2000 working on with a NetBSD wine
binary and the CrossOver office files.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that CrossOver office is just
a Linux optimized port of wine with a lot of configuration utilities
that allow one to install Windows apps and generate the "*.reg" files
that one needs to run those Windows apps.  I don't know if the Linux
Wine binary can run under NetBSD, but native NetBSD wine binaries
exist.

Unfortunately, there appears to be some change in the NetBSD-current
kernel that is preventing native NetBSD wine binaries from working,
even though they work with NetBSD 1.6.0.  :-(  Hopefully this will
be fixed soon.

Alicia.