Visual C++ 6.0 IDE Forum

Compared to my previous attempts to get this working, things are much improved.

You can now install directly into a win xp bottle. If you choose to use a win xp bottle it will no longer ask you to install dcom98 during install - wine OLE should provide an equivalent anyway.

I still recommend install MDAC 2.8 and patching to SP6 after install.

On winehq users recommend install vcrun6 and mfc42 before but I did not find this necessary. The only weird thing during install is the installer now has a constantly repeating error message about removing a font whenever a new dialog box appears. It is harmless though and you can click through it. The main program does not have this error.

One issue I have discovered is that building applications fails with errors stating winspool.lib could not be found.

The fix I have found is to open the project options and enter into the win32 debug library options anything into the additional include field.

It doesn't matter what you add here, anything works.