On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:26:34 -0300, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/10/11 12:40 AM, Roald Ribe wrote:
Platform X86, Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit, wine 1.3.15
Hello,
When I try to launch a game in wine, the game requires the directory
where the .exe file is located to be the current directory at startup
time. If I start the game by clicking on it in Nautilus, this seems to
be handled automatically. But when I try to start the game by invoking
it from an icon defined in Main Menu, it stops because it can not
locate it's files.
When launching a program with the wine command, like:
wine "c:/Program Files/Claw/CLAW.EXE"
the program starts but reports that it can not load resource files.
If I make a .bat file like:
c:
cd "\Program Files\Claw"
claw.exe
the game will start correctly, invoked by
wine start "c:/Program Files/Claw/claw.bat"
It seems to me that there should be an additional parameter in the
wine command, to set the current directory before the executable is
invoked. This would correspond with how a program is defined in
progman.exe as well. It should not be necessary to make a script or
write a batch file for each program. Or maybe I have missed an easy
way to acheive this essential functionality?
No, you are not missing anything. Windows programs are designed to be
started from the directory in which they are installed. Blame this on
Microsoft.
I agree that this is an expectation that Windows programs have. But
progman.exe, the Start menu and desktop icons allows the user to specify
a directory that the system will set to current before executing the
specified program. Would it not be logical and convenient for the wine
command to have the same option available?
Roald
