Wine error: Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded

Question

I made a fcgi-isapi bridge, which I compile with `wineg++` (keyword winelib). It is running a pure Win32 isapi extension using `LoadLibrary`/`GetProcAddress`. This works fine for a simple demo isapi dll, but not for a more complex one, where wine crashes somewhere inside the dll. `WINEDEBUG=+olerelay,+storage,+relay` gives me the following output: ``` 0009:Call KERNEL32.InterlockedIncrement(00000150) ret=1001eebe 0009:Call KERNEL32.UnhandledExceptionFilter(0033f428) ret=7bc8e2f5 wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00000150 at address 0x7b8716bd (thread 0009), starting debugger... Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. couldn't load main module (0) 0009:Ret KERNEL32.UnhandledExceptionFilter() retval=00000000 ret=7bc8e2f5 Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x00000150 in 32-bit code (0x7b8716bd). Register dump: CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:00…

Accepted Answer

Try

```
wineconsole --backend=curses fastcgi-to-isapi.exe
```

As this post describes:

Wine has three options to run apps in command line mode:

- On the bare linux console (wine)

- On the linux console with curses (wine wineconsole --backend=curses)

- In a win32 window (wine wineconsole --backend=user)

For wineconsole, the user backend is the default, that's why your command line tried to open a window.

It does however not print the output of the program. If you need the output, you can first start wineconsole in interactive mode, then run the exe from there:

```
me@mycomputer:~$ wineconsole
Microsoft Windows 6.1.7601 (3.0)

Z:\home\me> HelloWorld.exe
Hello World!
```

Obviously not a good solution if you want to do it programmatically though.

Wine error: Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded

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