Codeweaver's Wine - Autolaunch?

[Hal Vaughan]

Thanks!

I could have sworn it was the codeweaver's version of wine that had set the 
autolaunch, but I went back and checked the /etc/rc.d/init.d/wine script 
from the Mandrake wine install and found the code in that script to do just 
what you were talking about, so I installed just the script and set it to 
run at boot.

Problem solved!

Thanks again.

Hal


lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> 
>> I had a little trouble installing WINE and, becuase of that, tried
>> several
>> different versions.  It turned out the sound trouble was not a WINE
>> issue, but a devfs issue, so I deactivated devfs (devfs=nomount).
>>
>> I am using the latest RPM of Codeweaver's WINE with Mandrake 8.1.
>>
>> I've got Codeweaver's WINE up and running now.  When I first tried this,
>> I could type a win .exe file from the console and run it without typing
>> wine
>> [win_exe_name].  I could run a win exe from Konqueror by just clicking on
>> it.
>>
>> That doesn't work now, with a new install.  Did I set something up wrong?
>> Or is there another version that handles the "autolaunch" by detecting
>> the executable type and running WINE automatically?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Hal
> 
> That's not exactly wine that does that, or needs to be set up to do
> that.  It is a kernel feature called binfmt_misc, normally configured as
> a module binfmt_misc.o that the Linux System Administrator needs to
> decide if it wants to enable and configure.  Some Wine packages may take
> it upon themselves to configure it "for you" behind your back, but I
> guess you uninstalled those packages cleanly before installing the Wine
> you have now.  The doco for it is in
> <linux>/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt if you would like to take a swat
> at setting it up by hand.  I did it once, just to see if it would work,
> but I didn't bother to make a script for it.
> 
> It was probably your distro's Wine rpm or so that did that.  Distros
> tend to be a little cavalier about making decisions for the system
> administrator, and about dropping things into the startup scripts, which
> are somewhat distro specific.  OTOH, she had warts, and the version of
> wine in that is probably hideously obsolets.  If you don't want to
> bother picking apart the rpm to find the little part that sets up
> binfmt_misc, this nasty little script works for me.  Of course, if your
> wine executable is named something else, you must change the script or
> it won't work.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc
> /bin/mount -t binfmt_misc oops /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
> echo ':windose:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' \
>>/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
> 
> The backslash at the end of the 4th line just continues the line.  It is
> not part of the syntax.
> 
> Lawson
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