"Invalid address" running apps using wine-1.1.8,1

Eduardo Cerejo ejcerejo at optonline.net
Mon Nov 10 07:29:52 PST 2008


> Eduardo Cerejo writes:
> >  > I'm getting an "Invalid address" error trying to run Windows apps
> >  > under WINE.  "wineconsole cmd" works OK though, and so does winefile.
> >  > The error seems to only occur with apps that aren't supplied with
> >  > WINE, eg.
> >  > 
> >  > C:\Program Files\Winamp>winamp.exe
> >  > wine: could not load L"C:\\Program Files\\Winamp\\winamp.exe": Invalid address
> >  
> >  I'm getting the same error after portupgrading wine.  I haven't
> >  found anything on it yet! 
> 
> 	I have at least one non-Wine-supplied program that runs without
> this problem under wine-1.1.8.1.
> 	Mind you, it complains of stuff I don't think it sed to complain
> about ... but it runs.

It is frustrating when you try running an app and all you get is a little window saying "invalid address" and nothing else to work with.


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