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Is there any documentation on making unsupported applications work? I read a few suggestions such as installing IE7 or setting the virtual desktop. For instance, where are log files when an application fails to start up? Is there a place where you can search for error messages and documents that say, "if you see this..., then install this supporting package", or... "change this setting". I have a number of applications I would like to get working under Linux, but except for Microsoft Word, I am not having a lot of luck. I am a fairly competent developer, and would love to succeed and share my success. What are the debugging tools for CrossOver? Thank you.

Hi,

Unfortunately this documentation is a bit all over the place
in the wiki at present, and there's a lot of debugging information
available for mainstream Wine which is equally applicable in the
Crossover situation...I did hoist an 'umbrella' ticket on this a
week or so ago, and I believe the current resolve was one of this,
manual intervention, and pointing folks in the right direction...

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/CXOfficeStart

The first three topics there are pertinent, and wrt the second item
you can go see;

http://wiki.winehq.org/DebugChannels?action=show&redirect=WINEDEBUG

You use the methodology of how to create a debug log, as you would
in mainstream wine with the $WINEDEBUG env_var, specifying which
specific debug channels you believe are worth exploring. As a base
start-point, I always use +seh,+trace,+ntdll as it usually discloses
the most relevant information as to why an app is failing/crashing
or doing something else weird, and it gives you enough of a clue as
to what -other- debug channels are worth investigating.

It's always worthwhile seeing if there is a AppDB entry for the app
in question, over at WineHQ...some many times, solutions to problems
found by users there are typically applicable to Crossover as well.

http://appdb.winehq.org/

There's also this page..;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/UnsupportedApps

...and...

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/CXOffice_UnsupportedTips

....and somewhere in this lot is more information that can turn
out to be useful...;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/Home?action=tree

....and the app's forum itself of course, or the Tips&Tricks section
of the app C4 page (if it exists)....err...umm....I think that's all of it...

...oh...I think your first question is answered by...;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/faq/defaultlogs

;)

Cheers!