[Wine] Wine does not use PATH for DLL search, is this a bug or feature ?

[Kuang-Chun Cheng]

Hi

Thanks ... and yap, I solve my problem.  I did confuse
Linux and Wine environment variables.  Thanks agian.

Regards
KC

On 9/25/07, L. Rahyen <research at science.su> wrote:
>         (Mistakanly sent this from wrong e-mail, so I resend this message from e-mail
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>
> On Tuesday September 25 2007 03:31, Kuang-Chun Cheng wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I test both 0.9.44 and 0.9.45 and found that Wine does not use
> > PATH environment variables for  DLL search.
> >
> > My test application is a Qt 336 application, QSlider.exe.
> > QSlider.exe require both qt-mt336.dll and mingwm10.dll.   If I copy
> > both dll to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32, I can invoke QSlider.exe
> > from anywhere and it works OK.
> >
> > If I put both dlls to, eg. /opt/qt-3.3/bin.  And setup PATH with
> > /opt/qt-3.3/bin included.   Invoke QSlider.exe will give me error message:
> >
> > err:module:import_dll Library qt-mt336.dll (which is needed by
> > L"Z:\\home\\kcc\\QSlider.exe") not found
> > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
> > L"Z:\\home\\kcc\\QSlider.exe" failed, status c0000135
> >
> > My guess is wine just simple ignore PATH environment variable when
> > searching DLL,
> > am I correct ?  Is this a bug or a feature ?
> > Under WinXP/2K ... the PATH env. variables do work ... but not Wine.
> > Can someone confirm this ?   Thanks a lot.
>
>         WINE (and Windows) use PATH variable in the registry and this is probably
> what you want to use.
>         Of course environment variable is a different thing.
>         In Windows you don't use Linux environment variables and Linux shell (this is
> obvious): you are using cmd instead. WINE is no different so to get access to
> WINE environment you need to run this:
>
> wine cmd
>
>         And now type this:
>
> PATH
>
>         You will see current PATH environment variable. I didn't test it but I guess
> it will work correctly if you change it (if not this is a real bug).
>
>         To me it seems that you confuse Windows cmd environment with Linux shell
> environment.
>         Here is an example:
>
> % echo $PATH
> /usr/local/kde/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/share/lg3d/bin:/opt/maxwell64
> % wine cmd
> CMD Version 0.9.45
>
> Z:\var\pkgs\nvidia>PATH
> PATH=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows
>
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