Wine fails to load windowscodecs.dll due to Glibc 2.27 dependency

[Jeffrey Walton]

I'm trying to update the BIOS on a Dell Inspiron 3180 netbook. The netbook runs Zorin 12.3. Windows was overwritten. The DELL BIOS update is only offered for Windows. The download can be found at http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/inspiron-11-3180-laptop/drivers .

It appears the Wine software has a Glibc 2.27 dependency. It also appears Zorin and Ubuntu only provide Glibc 2.23. The problem shown below happens with:

  1. running from the Zorin LiveCD ISO
  2. a base installation followed by 'apt-get upgrade' (fully patched system)
  3. a base installation followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (upgraded and fully patched system)

I also tried removing win32 so only wine64 remained.

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$ wine Downloads/Inspiron_3180_3185_1.3.0.exe
000d:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"windowscodecs.dll": /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /usr/lib/wine/../i386-linux-gnu/wine/windowscodecs.dll.so)
000d:err:module:import_dll Loading library windowscodecs.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe") failed (error c000007a).
000d:err:module:attach_dlls Importing dlls for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe" failed, status c0000135
0030:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"MSVCR90.dll": /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /usr/lib/wine/../i386-linux-gnu/wine/msvcr90.dll.so)
0030:err:module:import_dll Loading library MSVCR90.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\uefi\\Temp\\7zS48f.tmp\\mfc90u.dll") failed (error c000007a).
0030:err:module:import_dll Library mfc90u.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\uefi\\Temp\\7zS48f.tmp\\H2OFFT-W.exe") not found
0030:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"MSVCR90.dll": /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /usr/lib/wine/../i386-linux-gnu/wine/msvcr90.dll.so)
0030:err:module:import_dll Loading library MSVCR90.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\uefi\\Temp\\7zS48f.tmp\\H2OFFT-W.exe") failed (error c000007a).
0030:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"msvcr90.dll": /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /usr/lib/wine/../i386-linux-gnu/wine/msvcr90.dll.so)
0030:err:module:import_dll Loading library msvcr90.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msvcp90.dll") failed (error c000007a).
0030:err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP90.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\uefi\\Temp\\7zS48f.tmp\\H2OFFT-W.exe") not found
0030:err:module:attach_dlls Importing dlls for L"C:\\users\\uefi\\Temp\\7zS48f.tmp\\H2OFFT-W.exe" failed, status c0000135

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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Zorin
Description: Zorin OS 12.3
Release: 12
Codename: xenial

$ uname -a
Linux Inspiron-3180 4.13.0-43-generic #48~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 17 12:56:46 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ wine --version
wine-3.0 (Ubuntu 3.0-1zorin2)

[anshuman (anshuman204)]

Even I am having the same issue

000d:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"windowscodecs.dll": /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /usr/lib/wine/../x86_64-linux-gnu/wine/windowscodecs.dll.so)
000d:err:module:import_dll Loading library windowscodecs.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe") failed (error c000007a).
000d:err:module:attach_dlls Importing dlls for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe" failed, status c0000135
0009:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"MSVCRT.dll": /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /usr/lib/wine/../i386-linux-gnu/wine/msvcrt.dll.so)
0009:err:module:import_dll Loading library MSVCRT.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\anshuman\\Downloads\\idman631build2.exe") failed (error c000007a).
0009:err:module:attach_dlls Importing dlls for L"Z:\\home\\anshuman\\Downloads\\idman631build2.exe" failed, status c0000135

[anshuman (anshuman204)]

My laptop is HP15n213TU

[Andrew Yother (yocopcs)]

Can you attach your apt sources.list file?