Wine problem running XMLSpy

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Guinpen · Post by **Guinpen** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:46 am

I'm trying to run XMLSpy.exe from XMLSpy 2006 Home on Wine. When I execute it I get a dialog with "Abnormal program termination." The title of the dialog is "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library". I was following the instructions found here: http://www.altova.com/support_platform_linux.html. I tried this on my Gentoo system first with a version of Wine newer than the one indicated on the webpage (I think it was 20050930... I'll try again and will report). Then I found a hardware-identical box with an old Suse 8.1 with wine-20030115 and got the same result. The latest CVS version of Wine wouldn't compile on Gentoo so now I'm trying to emerge 0.9.1.

I'd study the issue on my own first but time is a factor and running XMLSpy ASAP is VERY VERY IMPORTANT. Please help!!!

I'll update this thread as I'm making progress.

Guinpen · Post by **Guinpen** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:50 am

Update: The Gentoo machine with wine-0.9.1 runs the splash screen at which point it outputs in the console:

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wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00ffff04 at address 0x7ffc5262 (thread 000f), starting debugger...

No debugger ever starts so I killed it after 5 minutes. I still cannot build wine from CVS (wine-9999).

I will try 0.9.1 on the SuSE 8.1 machine... who knows... I'm desperate!

Guinpen · Post by **Guinpen** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:41 am

Update 2: Crossover Office 5 Trial doesn't run the program either. Cedega from CVS gives the same message as the old version of Wine.

Wine-0.9.1, on the Gentoo box, when used with 'winedbg XMLSpy.exe', gives the following:

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Wine-dbg>finish
First chance exception: page fault on read access to 0x7e510000 in 32-bit code (0x00d133c5).
Register dump:
 CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:003b GS:0033
 EIP:00d133c5 ESP:7fc1d9b0 EBP:00000009 EFLAGS:00010246(   - 00      -RIZP1)
 EAX:00000001 EBX:00ff00ff ECX:00ff00ff EDX:7e510000
 ESI:00000000 EDI:0000013b
Stack dump:
0x7fc1d9b0:  00000009 0000013b 7f9e3070 00000000
0x7fc1d9c0:  7e510000 7fa07300 00000b13 7fc1daa0
0x7fc1d9d0:  0000013b 00001190 00000009 0000013b
0x7fc1d9e0:  7ea75bec 000011bc 00fba8dc 000011b8
0x7fc1d9f0:  01014b60 000011ac 000011ac 00000000
0x7fc1da00:  00000028 0000013b 00000009 00200001
Backtrace:
=>1 0x00d133c5 in xmlspy (+0x9133c5) (0x00000009)
  2 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
0x00d133c5: movl        0x0(%edx),%ecx
Wine-dbg>

Can anyone help?

Guinpen · Post by **Guinpen** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:31 pm

Update 3: XMLSpy 2006 is hopeless and so is 2005 but 2004 seems to work. The program loads and after I "had a talk" with all the licensing shit, it seems ok. I've run into a very nasty problem with Wine however (happens in ALL wine apps on both 20050930 and 0.9l1). Every time a file open/save dialog opens, there is nothing were the file list should be, no file can be opened, and pressing Cancel crashes the program. Very very problematic (what good is a program if you cannot open a file in it?) - any ideas?

chetan13 · Post by **chetan13** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:44 pm

thanks for the tip. i was also trying to use xml spy 2005 but couldn't get it to work. i'll try 2004 for the next assignment

Guinpen · Post by **Guinpen** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:12 pm

Update 4: The open/save problem was related to Wine configuration somehow; deleting ~/.wine and reemergin wine-0.9.1 fixed it. The program is reasonably stable, although certain IE integration functions crash it. It does bitch about licenses every once in a while, most often at startup. It obviously validates a license over the net, so bringing down the net interdace for a few seconds around startup does the trick. Of course, I only do this because there's no way to obtain a free Home edition license for 2004, but only for 2006 which doesn't run at all.

I'm glad I've helped someone.