getting cygwin to run under wine

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Juergen Fiedler wrote:

> In article <20010424.142931.134624080.0.lawson_whitney at juno.com>,
> "Unknown" <lawson_whitney at juno.com> wrote:
>
> > Right.  Tried making the programs and using wine's own builtin wcmd
> > instead?
>
> I wonder whether my wine installation just sucks. When I type 'wcmd', I
> get a ' /usr/bin/wcmd: [: too many arguments', followed by an endless
> stream of  alternating '>' and 'Y' characters.
>
> j

It doesn't seem to suit you very well, does it?  Looks like it is trying
to be user-friendly, but maybe you are not a user?  I have been building
wine from source my own way for nearly 4 years, and I am not about to
try somebody else's idea of what will be easier for me.
In your version, "wine" is actually a shell script that takes upon
itself the burden of running wine for you and interpreting the results.
the wine executable is renamed wine.bin, I think, and you are protected
from its nastiness by the winelauncher.  I don't think wine is very
nasty.  It is a fairly well behaved *nix program that will do what you
ask or die trying.


That looks like a winelauncher problem.  The current winelauncher can
launch GUI winelib programs, but wcmd wants to read stdin, I think, and
finds it is not connected  to anything.  Try:

WINEPRELOAD=/usr/bin/wcmd.so /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin

I am guessing about where things are in your wine installation.  If
there is no /usr/bin/wcmd.so, try

find / -type f -name wcmd.so

This will take a while, but if there is a wcmd.so, it will find it.

find /opt /usr -type f -name wcmd.so

might find it faster, and with less gnashing.  If you know where it is,
of course, you don't need to find it.  Likewise for wine.bin, which
might be named wine.  Whatever it is named, it is an

file wine
wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

_not_ a

file winelauncher
winelauncher: Bourne shell script text

Lawson

I'd be lost without find.
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