Re: Wine with 64 bit prefix and databases

On 04/04/2025 14:06, Ilya Sokolov wrote:
> The application successfully runs under WINE until it tries to connect 
> to the database, because there is no ADO data provider available. I 
> have tried installing MDAC via winetricks, downloading and installing 
> Access Runtime 2010 and 2016, but all with ho success.
>
> Could you tell me what is the proper way of setting up the access ADO 
> driver in WINE in x64? If it is not possible now, could you tell me if 
> any database works on wine in 64 bit prefix, so I will change the 
> database type in the application.

Wine's ADO support is still somewhat rudimentary, and you would still 
require the separate Access runtime. As far as I know, the MDAC 
installed by winetricks is 32-bit only; I don't think Microsoft ever 
released a 64-bit redistributable.

Unless you can switch to using ODBC instead (which is better supported 
in Wine), you probably won't have much success even if you used a 
different database driver, without more work being done on our ADO 
implementation.

Owen