http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5237
Summary: Windows Scripting Host installs but doesn't work? Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: Other URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID =c717d943-7e4b-4622-86eb-95a22b832caa OS/Version: other Status: NEW Keywords: download Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-msi AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
The activeperl msi installer http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/ActivePerl-5.8.8.817... failed because it wanted Windows Scripting Host installed.
I found a copy of the Windows Scripting Host 5.6 for Win2K installer and ran it without any trouble. I verified that cscript.exe appeared in windows/system32. However, running cscript.exe with no arguments didn't print out a banner, as it's supposed to according to http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-...
And ActivePerl still things WSH isn't installed; running with +msi shows trace:msi:MSI_GetPropertyW returning L"Absent" for property L"WSCRIPT.SHELL" right before it aborts.
Something seems awry here...