Question about wine and LMMS

[Gps4l]

LMMS - Linux Multi Media Studio.

In this program you can load software synthesizers / drum computers.

These plugins are called vst(i) and are .dll files.

LMMS uses on Linux, wine to load these .dll files.

Some work some don't, I am used to that.

But there is one plugin I would really like to use.

To test if this plugin works, I also installed LMMS on Win 7 pro.
No problem there when loading the .dll file.

Back to Linux, openSUSE 12.3 64 bit and wine.

The plugin loads but then wine and LMMS both freeze.

Now my question:

When I encounter problem on openSUSE, I usual start a program from the command-line, and see if there are errors or something I understand.
But it seems you can't start wine this way?
When I tried, the commandline told me, I have to type wine and the program I want to start.
That's were my problem starts. Wine does not run lmms, lmms runs native on Linux, but I want to see the output from wine.
And a .dll file is not a program? or is it ?

And wine Rhytmus.dll gives me

XXXX@linux-n2go:~> wine Rythmus.dll
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\Rythmus.dll"

I am totally confused. I do understand wine can't find the .dll file in system32, because its stored in a folder in lmms, like all the vst I use, and which do work.

[curaga]

It's a shared library, you can't run it.

[Gps4l]

Thank you for the confirmation.

But isn't there a way, that I can see why wine crashes ?

With other programs on Linux its as simple as starting it from the commandline, but wine does not work in this way.

[droste]

If it actually uses wine you can try setting the WINEDEBUG environment variable ( http://wiki.winehq.org/DebugChannels ) before starting the program from the command line.

[Gps4l]

Thank you that should do the trick.