Invalid path L"c:\\WINDOWS" for L"windows" directory: does not exist

[Andreas Davour]

Hi!

I try to use wine v.20040505 on FreeBSD5.2 and I just get the error in the
subject line.

I found another post about this and that OP was just told to check the
"dosdevices" directly, since I have such a directory and I don't get any
closer to a solution by staring uncomprehending at the files I thought
maybe someone could give a wine newbie some more ideas on what to do?

I didn't find any "C:" in that directory mentioned, and tried to make a
c: synlink to a new directory without any more success.

/andreas

[Stefan Munz]

Hi Andreas,

first this question should better be posted to the wine users mailing list 
(wine-users(a)winehq.org).

Am Freitag, 23. Juli 2004 20:42 schrieb Andreas Davour:
> Hi!
>
> I try to use wine v.20040505 on FreeBSD5.2 and I just get the error in the
> subject line.
>
> I found another post about this and that OP was just told to check the
> "dosdevices" directly, since I have such a directory and I don't get any
> closer to a solution by staring uncomprehending at the files I thought
> maybe someone could give a wine newbie some more ideas on what to do?
>
> I didn't find any "C:" in that directory mentioned, and tried to make a
> c: synlink to a new directory without any more success.
>
> /andreas
> usually your fake windows drive is in /home/username/.wine/fake_windows this 
> is where your symlink C: in the dosdevices dir should point to.

Regards,

Stefan

[Andreas Davour]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Stefan Munz wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> first this question should better be posted to the wine users mailing list
> (wine-users(a)winehq.org).

Thanks for mentioning it. I found this this via google and it seemed like
the right place. Now I know.
> Am Freitag, 23. Juli 2004 20:42 schrieb Andreas Davour:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I try to use wine v.20040505 on FreeBSD5.2 and I just get the error in the
> > subject line.
> >
> > I found another post about this and that OP was just told to check the
> > "dosdevices" directly, since I have such a directory and I don't get any
> > closer to a solution by staring uncomprehending at the files I thought
> > maybe someone could give a wine newbie some more ideas on what to do?
> >
> > I didn't find any "C:" in that directory mentioned, and tried to make a
> > c: synlink to a new directory without any more success.
>
> usually your fake windows drive is in /home/username/.wine/fake_windows this
> is where your symlink C: in the dosdevices dir should point to.

I've tried that now, it looks like it now is searching for a "temp"
directory as well. I didn't get a "fake windows" when installing, but got
one from a friend. I'm beginning to suspect something is broken with the
FreeBSD port. I'll try to check with that maintainer.

Thanks for your help, now I'm on track debugging the problem.

/andreas

[Mike Hearn]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:13:11 +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
> I've tried that now, it looks like it now is searching for a "temp"
> directory as well. I didn't get a "fake windows" when installing, but got
> one from a friend. I'm beginning to suspect something is broken with the
> FreeBSD port. I'll try to check with that maintainer.
>
> Thanks for your help, now I'm on track debugging the problem.

Wine should generate ~/.wine and ~/.wine/drive_c when you first run it.
Alternatively "wineprefixcreate" can be used to build it for you (does the
same thing). 

If that isn't happening for you either you have an old version of Wine or
your package is broken.

thanks -mike