Missing shcore DLL in Wine

[rick]

context: Wine 1.8, Mint 17.3, fileoptimizer 8.4 64bit

Reading past comments here, I've followed another advice to copy zlib.dll from plugins64 folder into FO's main folder, renaming it into shcore.dll - to no result, so far. What I get is:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/xxx/.wine" wine C:\\Program\ Files\\FileOptimizer\\FileOptimizer64.exe
err:module:import_dll Loading library Shcore (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\FileOptimizer\\FileOptimizer64.exe") failed (error c000007b).
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\FileOptimizer\\FileOptimizer64.exe" failed, status c0000135

Any advice is welcome, TIA
ric

[Nikkho]

Since 8.20 we are delay loading shcore.dll in order to avoid that bug, but only in x86 versions:

• https://sourceforge.net/p/nikkhokkho/discussion/fileoptimizer/thread/61d725e4/?limit=25#143f
• https://sourceforge.net/p/nikkhokkho/discussion/fileoptimizer/thread/61d725e4/?limit=25#22a4

For x64, the workarround was not needed, so never implemented it. For your zlib workarround to work, I would say you should use a x64 version of zlib, so at least Windows is properly able to load it without thrunking. Are you using a 64 bit DLL? It not, can you try with this: http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/zlib.html?

[rick]

Previously, I had copied the zlib.dll from plugins64 sub-folder, no idea whether it was a 32 or 64-bit version.

HOWEVER, I followed the winimage link you suggested, downloaded the 64-bit dll, renamed zlibwapi.dll into SHCore.dll - still in FO's main folder, and now it works like a charm.

A very big thank you for promptness and content of your support.
ric

[Nikkho]

Than makes sense. zlib.dll in Plugins64 folder, belongs to zRecompress, which is in fact a 32 bit application yet.

Anyway, glad the workarround worked, and with it you are able to run FO in Wine64 (as in Wine32).