How to make Concord run in Wine

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I find that Concord (the 1999 edition for Windows 95) runs fine in Wine on top of Linux, but it needs some tweaking to make it usable.

The problems that I see when I run Concord in Wine under default settings[edit]

  • clicking on a search result entry should display the passage in the book text window, but instead it displays a passage several pages earlier in the given book or chapter.
  • highlighting text in a book should activate the jot button, but it does not.

These problems can be fixed by proper Wine configuration.

Wine Configuration[edit]

First, the patch should be applied to bring the application up to version 1.0.05 as shown here:

Concordversion.png

This patch is available under the name CrdWin105.exe.

If you look inside the self-extracting zip file for the patch, you see it contains three files:

  • concord.exe
  • riched20.dll
  • riched32.dll

You must now tell Wine explicitly to use those versions of the dll instead of the versions bundled in Wine.

Open the "Configure Wine" application like so:

Configwine.png

Under the Libraries tab, make the following entries:

Concorddll.png

I also prefer to increase the DPI setting in Wine so the default settings in Concord for all the windows look bigger.

Concorddpi.png

Remaining problems under Wine[edit]

  • unable to play hymns
  • the popup text in a yellow-background that appears when you mouse over an entry in the search results is blank
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