{"id":694,"date":"2010-08-05T20:44:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2016-02-06T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T07:14:56","slug":"visual-basic-6-revisited-linux-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/visual-basic-6-revisited-linux-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"visual basic 6 revisited – linux – wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, I had written an article on running Visual Basic 6 on linux under wine, this<\/strong> is an update for it, the prior one is deprecated<\/strong><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Getting Visual Basic 6 to work on linux is pretty easy, not much trouble, all the basic things work, as of what I’ve tested.<\/p>\n

Here’s how you get that damn thing to work:<\/p>\n

\nCopy over the contents of OS\/SYSTEM\/ from the CD root to your wine system32 directory
\n[sourcecode lang=bash]
\n$ cp -r \/media\/cdrom\/OS\/SYSTEM\/* ~\/.wine\/drive_c\/windows\/system32\/
\n[\/sourcecode]
\nSince we are only concerned about Visual Basic 6, copy over the folder VB98 from the CD root to your Program Files
\n[sourcecode lang=bash]
\n$ cp -r \/media\/cdrom\/VB98\/ ~\/.wine\/drive_c\/Program\\ Files\/
\n# for the sake of convenience, let’s rename this folder as Visual Basic 6
\n$ mv ~\/.wine\/drive_c\/Program\\ Files\/VB98\/ ~\/.wine\/drive_c\/Program\\ Files\/Visual\\ Basic\\ 6\/
\n[\/sourcecode]
\nRegister the two dynamically linked libraries essential to run Visual Basic 6 smoothly
\n[sourcecode lang=bash]
\n$ cd ~\/.wine\/drive_c\/windows\/system32\/
\n$ wine regsvr32 comcat.dll
\n$ wine regsvr32 MSSTDFMT.DLL
\n[\/sourcecode]
\nEasy, eh? Your all done, now, let’s create an optional launch command with the following contents
\nFile: vbasic<\/small><\/strong>
\n[sourcecode lang=bash]
\n#!\/bin\/bash
\ncd ~\/.wine\/drive_c\/Program\\ Files\/Visual\\ Basic\\ 6\/
\nwine VB6.EXE
\n[\/sourcecode]
\nMake our launcher executable and place it in the right place
\n[sourcecode lang=bash]
\n$ chmod +x vbasic
\n# following command must be issued as root
\n$ mv vbasic \/usr\/local\/bin\/
\n[\/sourcecode]
\nNow you can just issue the command vbasic, and all should work well, using this launcher, you can create entries for your panel, etc.<\/p>\n

\nDeployed with a fresh install of wine version 1.2-rc2<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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