SystemVision

What works

The installation seems to work with some workarounds (see Installation Howto). Licensing also seems to work.

What does not

Starting the application doesn't work.

Workarounds

What was not tested

The whole application, as it doesn't run.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The installation of SystemVision is a little tricky.

• First ensure that you have a fresh wine prefix with the emulation set at least to Windows 2000.
• Then call wine SVED4.4_Release.exe.
• The installation will fail when the Mentor Graphics Installer is extracted and started because of the Java Runtime 1.3.1 is incompatible with wine. You have to go to C:\MentorGraphics\Install. There is a directory JRE, containing the Java Runtime Environment. You have to remove the directory or rename it and then copy a current JRE (I used version 1.6) into the directory.
• After this you have to create a file, say C:\SV.XML with the following content:
  

  <batchFile>
          <source value="C:\windows/temp/SystemVisionEd44"/>
          <target value="C:\MentorGraphics"/>
          <platform value="Windows"/>
          <release name="SystemVision Educational"/>
                  <product name="SystemVision 4.4 Educational" productroot=""/>
          </release>
  </batchFile>
  

• Get a MFC42.DLL and a MSVCIRT.DLL from somewhere and install it into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and then register it with regsvr32 "C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\MFC42.DLL" "C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\MSVCIRT.DLL".
• Now you can call the installer with wine 'C:\MentorGraphics\Install\Install.exe' -silent -batch 'C:\sv.xml'.
• If there were some DLL registrations failing, you can fix this with the following shell script, trying registering to register all DLL's: cd ~/.wine/drive_c && find . -name "*.dll" -o -name "*.DLL" -o -name "*.ocx" -o -name "*.OCX" | sed -e "s_^./_C:\\\\\\\\_g" -e "s_/_\\\\\\\\_g" | while read name; do regsvr32 "$name"; done

Good look.
Please write a comment, when this procedure fails for you. The application will not run. I see a splash screen and then get an error. When it works for you, please let me know!