wine pcad2009smarteng.exe

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Greetings all,

I’m an antiX newbie and am generally not too acquainted with the use of forums. Hopefully someone will inform me if there is a more appropriate place or way I should have posted this.

I’ll certainly be grateful if someone can provide any pointers or advice that will spare me some of the endless rabbit holes I’m finding around:

$ wine pcad2009smarteng.exe

This is progeCAD 2009 Smart!, a ten-year old Windows shareware clone of the ubiquitous professional computer aided design program AutoCAD that is licensed for free non-business use.

Wine, of course, is the Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer package ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’.

progeCAD runs well under other instances and versions of Wine in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu flavors Ubuntu 18.04.2, Lubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu MATE 16.04; is workable but produces no working desktop icon, menu entry, or shortcut in Kubuntu 18.04. Have yet to try Xubuntu or MX.

Following are most of the gory details I can think of:

wine/stable,stable,now 1.8.7-2 all [installed]
wine64/stable,now 1.8.7-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
wine32/stable,now 1.8.7-2 i386 [installed]
mono-complete/stable,now 4.6.2.7+dfsg-1 amd64 [installed]

I used winecfg to set things to Windows Vista application setting which is definitely compatible with progeCAD 2009 Smart!. But there is some confusion in my mind about 32-bit/64-bit program status. My understanding is that it is a 64-bit program; it runs under wine64 in other operating systems, but I don’t really know what it does ‘under the hood’ and if I attempt to run wine against icad.exe from the home directory (above but containing .wine) I get:

$ wine icad.exe
wine: cannot find L”C:\\windows\\system32\\icad.exe”

Upon the command ‘~$ wine pcad2009smarteng.exe’, progeCAD installed properly as expected in accordance with previous experience to the point of opening up a server to register the license. This worked properly but without opening a browser and webpage in the manner I had come to expect (which I believe should be via Gecko), but after the program installed, progeCAD failed to open its program window and launch as it should.

Also, during the progress of the installation process, I never saw expected popup windows about installing Mono and Gecko. No menu entry or icon installed to the desktop either.

But progeCAD did install to the expected location:

.wine/drive_c/Program Files’/progeSOFT/’progeCAD 2009 Smart! ENG’

From whence prior experience suggests it should be directly launchable via the command line with:

$ wine icad.exe

But instead of the open program I get all sorts of error output (and I’ve yet to/may not be able to teach myself much use of winedbg):

demo@antix1:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/progeSOFT/progeCAD 2009 Smart! ENG
$ wine icad.exe
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {00000320-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {00000320-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} could be created for context 0x80000001
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {b8da6310-e19b-11d0-933c-00a0c90dcaa9} not registered
--several similar lines redacted for brevity--
err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000018 at address 0x7f191e3a (thread 0009), starting debugger...
err:seh:start_debugger Couldn't start debugger ("winedbg --auto 8 236") (2)
Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another debugger

$ inxi -Fxrz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 
  bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17.4.1_x64-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 81F9 v: 67.38 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI [Legacy]: Insyde v: F.22 date: 12/28/2016 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 29.1 Wh condition: 29.1/31.1 Wh (94%) 
  model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core 
  model: AMD A10-9600P RADEON R5 10 COMPUTE CORES 4C+6G 
  bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Excavator rev: 1 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 19163 
  Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 1200/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1200 2: 1200 3: 1200 4: 1200 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Carrizo vendor: Hewlett-Packard Wani 
  driver: N/A bus ID: 00:01.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: vesa 
  resolution: 1368x768~N/A 
  OpenGL: 
  renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9 128 bits) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1 
  Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:09.2 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit 
  Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI 
  port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
  port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 988.79 GiB used: 20.10 GiB (2.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 
  size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra 
  size: 57.28 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 9.78 GiB used: 995.0 MiB (9.9%) fs: overlay 
  source: ERR-102 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: 20.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch/ stretch main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 171 Uptime: 2h 40m Memory: 11.28 GiB 
  used: 1.05 GiB (9.4%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
  gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33

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