[Gllug] Overriding Wine dll files.

[Dennis Dryden]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:54 PM, general_email at technicalbloke.com
<general_email at technicalbloke.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to help service a Wine bug and have been advised to override
> "ole32.dll". The interface for setting this up in winecfg is quite
> straightforward and I have set ole32 to "Native then Builtin" for this
> particular app but I have never told it were my 'native' Microsoft
> ole32.dll is so I can't imagine this by itself will be enough.
>
> The Wine help files suggest I need to put such dll files into
> ~/.wine/windows/system32/ which would be easy enough, however it would
> also involve overwriting Wine's version of ole32.dll which several other
> sites advise against doing: without explaining what the alternative is!
> Wine has been working fine for me with Photoshop and Spotify so I am
> inclined to agree with them. The question now is where should I copy the
> replacement ole32.dll to, if not the /windows/system32/ folder? I can
> see no way of specifying a path in winecfg or the "WINEDLLOVERRIDES"
> environment variable and Google's not turned up owt useful yet either :-/
>
> Roger.
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Hello,
How about putting the dll in the same folder as the application your
trying to run?

Dennis
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