"Dan" == Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com writes:
Dan> The C program main(int argc, char **argv) { puts(argv[0]); }
Dan> outputs an absolute path on Windows, but sometimes outputs a Dan> relative path on Wine. This causes the commandline $ wine d:setup Dan> to fail to find its files properly if it uses the basename of Dan> argv[0]. One example of this is msvc4.0 (although it only tries Dan> this if an earlier method fails, so there's another bug lurking).
Dan> I am about to submit a one-line patch to fix this to wine-patches. Dan> (If I weren't a wimp, I'd figure out a way to submit a regression Dan> test, too, although it'd be a strange one; most of our tests don't Dan> need to invoke Wine itself from the Unix commandline!)
Dan> The same problem exists for programs launched from other wine Dan> programs, e.g. from inside wcmd. That's another code path, and I Dan> couldn't find a one-line fix for that one. - Dan
Did you check that it is CreateProcess that adds the absolute path? I would guess the MS C Library will do it. Fiddling with CreateProcess needs good throught.
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