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Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine
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how to find what package to install from "missing dll" #1993

Closed alien999999999 closed 1 year ago

alien999999999 commented 1 year ago

like, a game complains that X3Daudio1_7.dll is missing, but there was no easy way to find it, eventually i found that xact seemed to have this... It would be great to have like a find x3daudio command that would says xact.

austin987 commented 1 year ago

It's an interesting request, but I don't think this would scale very well/it would be a pain to maintain. Thinks like native .Net install a lot of files, any of which a user might search for. IIRC some vcrun verbs install different files based on what windows version is emulated. There are likely other edge cases that would need to be considered.

FWIW, winetricks list-all or winetricks dlls list will list the dll names for some verbs. It's not feasible to list all dlls/components, but feel free to send a patch updating those descriptions.

alien999999999 commented 1 year ago

IC, well, i was kinda hoping this would automagically detect it or something (maybe when doing unit testing or something) and it generates a list for filenames (or dll names or something) automagically... I agree that manual maintenance is not doable.