Howto start Linux programs from wine ?

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Reinhold Schoeb wrote:

> I am using Lotus Notes 5.04a under Wine/Linux, and I can say the wine
> developers did a great job.
>
> I would like to start a Linux program from wine, e. g. start the Acroread
> viewer when clicking on an attached PDF document.
>
> Does someone know how to do that ?
>
> Reinhold

Just do it, I guess.  I was able to start a few X11 apps (sxpm and
xclock) from wine's builtin progman, which if I am reading the code
right does it with WinExec, so I guess any windows or winelib program
can do the same.  The linux program has to be mapped on to a windows
drive in the config, and I think the program has to be called by its
windows path, FI g:\usr\X11\bin\sxpm -plaid (I have g mapped to / in
wine config.  If c: (or d:...) is a linux filesystem, you can use a
symbolic link to make a linux executable appear there.  By default, wine
ignores directory symbolic links, but that is configurable).

If you need to associate a program name with a file type, that is some
resedit or regedit nonsense that always stops me cold.  Sorry, I don't
really see the point of GUI.

It is pretty easy to write a winelib program now with the help of
winemaker, and if you don't care whether it can compile with a windows
compiler or run in native windows, it can use both the windows API and
libc functions such as fork() and exec(), or system(), or...

Lawson

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