[Wine] call openoffice in linux from wine

[Gert van den Berg]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 21:31, Martin Gregorie <martin at gregorie.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 19:52 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote:
>> any reason why its necessary to involve a shell?
>>
> I think that makes sense. WINE doesn't seem able to run a script
> directly - it certainly won't recognise the #!/bin/bash idiom, so it
> follows that you need the start the shell explicitly by using the
> "/bin/sh -c" construction. It doesn't appear to parse the rest of the
> line correctly, so passing "script arguments..." ads a single string
> will hand the lot to the explicit shell, which will parse it. Once the
> Linux shell is running and has started executing the script, all the
> usual idioms (hash-bang, backtick, etc) will also work. However, the
> environment might be quite limited: best to run the 'env' command just
> to see how the environment has been set up.
>
AFIAK, the OS handles that, not Wine / shell.


mohag at mohagpc:~/tmp$ wine cmd
CMD Version 1.1.33

Z:\home\mohag\tmp>test.sh
test ran
Z:\home\mohag\tmp>mohagpc

Z:\home\mohag\tmp>

Z:\home\mohag\tmp>type test.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo test ran
hostname

(No idea why it echo's a prompt before the hostname output....)

>> (Standard system does not seem to support it, but one of exec &
>> friends might...)
>>
> Are the exec() ... family of functions available to the OP's compiler?
> They may be if the OP is using mingw or djgpp but IIRC were not
> available in the Borland compilers and are possibly not supported by MS
> compilers.
>
I assumed MS compiler:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/431x4c1w%28VS.71%29.aspx

Hoped to get a win32 api function....