DraftSight is a pretty complete 2D CAD product which can read and write DXF and DWG files. It works great in a VirtualBox virtual-machine in Linux, but I rather like to run things natively if possible. Installing it in my existing Wine prefix worked, but trying to run it gave me the following error: Runtime Error! An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application's support team for more information. Therefore I tried a clean install in a new Wine prefix using the following commands (using some hints from here):

export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.winedraft
wget -O $WINEPREFIX/winetricks http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh $WINEPREFIX/winetricks vcrun2005
chmod -R u-w $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/winsxs
# execute the downloaded installation package
# http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/download-draftsight/
wine Downloads/DraftSight.exe
# You've to do a custome installation, otherwise the 'Install'
# button doesn't work

To launch (or use the installed menu link):

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.winedraft wine $HOME/.winedraft/drive_c/P*/D*/D*/bin/DraftSight.exe

And that's it. Wine version 1.0.1, DraftSight version 10.7.400. The process was tested with Debian/Squeeze as of October 2010, but should also work with Ubuntu.

posted at 14:21 | path: /unix | permanent link to this entry