Hi, I’m trying to run a Windows binary, https://adressenprogrammapro.nl/ After 7z x adressenprogrammapro_7.0.8.0_release.msi, I get a bunch of .dll’s and a MAIN_EXE, which is of file type:
MAIN_EXE: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386 Mono/.Net assembly, for MS Windows, 3 sections
With my limited/nonexistent knowledge of .Net, should I be using wine, dotnet or mono?
Wine
With Wine (even wineWowPackages.full), I do see a GUI, and it shows an error:
Message:
An error occured while creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Stacktrace:
at APPro.UI.My.MyProject+MyForms.Create__Instance__[T] (T Instance) [0x000bf] in <332711aeebaf4669a2c8300d2bf7fc47>:0
at APPro.UI.My.MyProject+MyForms.get_FrmMain () [0x00000] in <332711aeebaf4669a2c8300d2bf7fc47>:0
at APPro.UI.My.MyApplication.OnCreateMainForm () [0x00006] in <332711aeebaf4669a2c8300d2bf7fc47>:0
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.OnRun () [0x0000e] in <c27b6a0cdf0446ddb7b16e1ee39a8a98>:0
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.DoApplicationModel () [0x00035] in <c27b6a0cdf0446ddb7b16e1ee39a8a98>:0
… and a bunch of stuff on stdout/stderr, but none of which seems obviously problematic - happy to share if that’s useful.
mono
With mono, it complains it cannot find Microsoft.VisualBasic:
The entry point method could not be loaded due to Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
I can get a Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll with fetchNuGet, and when I place these in the current directory they do seem to get loaded, but just lead to further errors - happy to share them but doesn’t feel like I’m on the right track there.
dotnet
With various dotnet applications, like dotnetCorePackages.aspnetcore_7_0, it does seem to allow me to run binary assemblies, but I first have to rename MAIN_EXE to main.dll, and add a main.runtimeconfig.json like:
{
"runtimeOptions": {
"tfm": "netcoreapp3.1",
"framework": {
"name": "Microsoft.NETCore.App",
"version": "7.0.5"
},
"configProperties": {
"System.Globalization.UseNls": true,
"System.Net.DisableIPv6": true,
"System.GC.Concurrent": false,
"System.Threading.ThreadPool.MinThreads": 4,
"System.Threading.ThreadPool.MaxThreads": 25
}
}
}
Unfortunately, that still leads to errors such as:
Unhandled exception. System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'Adressen Programma Pro, Version=7.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
Aborted (core dumped)
what’s next?
Does anyone have recommendations on which approach should I pursue further?
