Robert McLean <robert.mclean1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
