Invalid floating point

[porrasmade]

Hi! I installed Atlantis latest version. System is Ubuntu 13.04. What does this mean:
Exception: Invalid floating point operation?
I have gone on with writing and got this message again several times and in several places. What is it?
porrasmade

[admin]

Sorry, but Ubuntu is not among the supported operating systems.

[Robert]

Hi,
Atlantis is a Windows application. As such it cannot run on an Ubuntu Linux system. But you can perfectly well install and run Atlantis on an Ubuntu Linux system through Wine. Here is an excerpt from the Wine site (About Wine):

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

You’ll find detailed explanations on how to install and run Atlantis on Ubuntu at the following forum thread:

Linux Install Atlantis w/ Wine -- General Instructions

HTH.
Cheers,
Robert

[Colorwheel]

Sorry, but Ubuntu is not among the supported operating systems.

That's actually not an Atlantis error-- it's a Wine issue that pops up occasionally.

If you go to winehq.org and submit a bug report they seem to get fixed fairly quickly.

[rstroud]

I know this may sound like a silly question ... but was porrasmade actually using Wine?

[Colorwheel]

I know this may sound like a silly question ... but was porrasmade actually using Wine?

My guess is yes, unless something else was used that could run an .exe file. With Linux you either make an install (compile a shell script) or run a distro-specific self-extracting package (in Ubuntu it's .deb). Because Wine isn't so much an emulator as a "bridge" compatibility layer, it simply adapts the .exe file, but if a library is either missing or in the "wrong' place it occasionally produces the error.

But that'd have to be a fairly old version of Wine. Atlantis has apparently had gold ranking on winehq.org for a long time. Another possibility is that the Wine version is forked for compatibility to a specific program (like Netflix or some games) overturning something basic which would mean a lot more than Atlantis has a problem.

[rstroud]

Thank you, Colorwheel!

That makes me feel better, because I had previously read that Atlantis runs all right under Wine.

[Colorwheel]

Thank you, Colorwheel!

That makes me feel better, because I had previously read that Atlantis runs all right under Wine.

And it should, so long as the Wine version is itself unmodified. (Sorry about the Netflix scare--those patches should work fine with both Netflix and Atlantis and I *think* are proposed for trunk inclusion.