[Wine] Re: Wine and MS Access problem

[Robert McLean]

Daniel Skorka wrote:
> Robert McLean <robert.mclean1 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > I didnt understand why D: was mapped to /mnt/windows/C, or why E: was
> > mapped to D, but i thought maybe the machine knows better than me, so I
> > tried running wine with those settings.  But I got error message about
> > not finding the program file on D.  Obviously since it is looking for D
> > files on C.
>
> Because there is no reason for wine to do otherwise. You can call the
> mountpoints whatever you like, wine doesn't give a damn.
>
> > So I try wine with my spice program scad3.exe, and with msaccess.
> >
> > With scad3 it launches, and mostly works.  When I hit the open file
> > command I can browse a directory tree as one  would expect, and I can
> > see files on D, and I can see files on C where they belong.  So it is
> > seeing C drive from that point of view.  But when I try to do a circuit
> > simulation, it is necessary for the program to look up "include" files,
> > and these are on my C drive.  It doesnt find them.    It does find
> > them, and the program works perfectly, when I have the Wine
> > configuration set to C:  /mnt/windows/C
>
> Solution: Copy files from /mnt/windows/C to the respective place under
> ~/.wine/drive_c
>
> >> Well, you were wrong. What you never should do is something like
> >> $ wine /path/to/app.exe
> >
> > But I didnt do anything like that.  Perhaps the term mapping is
> > incorrect.  All I did was go into wine config and set C: to
> > /mnt/windows/C  , in other words set it to where it is actually mounted
> > in linux
> >
> >> Instead, do
> >> $ cd /path/to && wine app.exe
> >> This solves most file not found problems. If that doesn't help, well
> >> have to keep looking.
> >>
> >
> > OK, what I did was try to figure out where my wine executables are.
> > Being new to linux, I am not sure if I have found them.  I see in
> > /usr/lib/wine a lot of files with extensions .dll.so and .exe.so  From
> > what I can gather .so means they are shared files.  The file types
> > given in the File Browser doesnt actually call any of the files I can
> > find applications, or executables or any term like that.  So have I
> > found the right folder ?
> > In any case I tried cd /use/lib/wine, got to the folder in question,
> > and then ran wine, but the results were the same.
>
> *sigh* You are confusing a lot of things here.
> /path/to/app.exe refers to any windows program you have installed, _not_
> to the wine installation. It also isn't related to drive mapping.
>
> Daniel

Ok, thanks for your help.   I have gone back to using C: = /drive_c,  I
have copied my folder of spice include files to the equivalent spot in
\wine\drive_c\,  and I now launch wine from the applicable windows app
folder by doing cd /mnt/windows/D/"program files"/ etc etc, and my
spice program works fine, so I will consider this aspect of my Wine
troubles to be solved.  
Thanks again.