Re: Winelib portability on USB booted system

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi,

Wine itself doesn't care how you boot. I am running a pile of games on systems booted from NFS. It is possible that there is a difference between the two systems. Are they using the same distro, and same version of the distro?

Three things to check:

1) Stupidity check, is the file xerase.exe.so actually there and not e.g. a dead symlink? What if you cd into the directory and run it from there?
2) Does winecfg work? If it doesn't, something's flawed with the Wine installation
3) use the +module debug channel (WINEDEBUG=module wine ...). It will be spammy. Search for xerase.exe and see if it reports any library load issues in xerase or its dependencies.

Good luck,
Stefan
> Am 28.09.2022 um 22:44 schrieb Brent Burkholder :
>
> Update:  decided to delete the extra links in dosdevices… no change
>
> If I don’t use sudo (which the program actually needs, so this is just for a data point) then instead I get
> wine: failed to start L”C:\XERASxlnx\xerase.exe.so”
>
> From: Brent Burkholder
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 3:33 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Winelib portability on USB booted system
>
> We had originally tried a software port using winelib 5, and it was just a no-go in functionality.  Wine 7 is working a LOT better for what we’re doing (Windows GUI with ability to do low level Linux hooks), so thank you all for all of the hard work!
>
> Unfortunately, even though the software is running great on our development machine, when I try to run it on another system (configured USB boot, should have the same version of wine, etc) it doesn’t run at all with pretty much no feedback.   Can anyone help me understand why, or what I need to be looking for?
>
> Both systems are starting with the same script (I’ve done a lot of variations, directly launching myself, and it doesn’t seem to matter.)
>
> #!/bin/bash
> sudo env “PATH=/opt/wine-devel/bin:$PATH” /opt/wine-devel/bin/wine xerase.exe.so
>
> The compiling system starts right up.  The USB boot system that I’m trying to run it on gives me
>
> 0078:fixme:wineusb:add_unix_device Interface 1 has 2 alternate settings; using the first one.
> Wine: failed to start L”F:\home\test.wine\drive_c\XERASxlnx\xerase.exe.so”
> Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
> ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found.
>
> If I do the command directly instead of through a script I get exactly the same thing.
>
> If I cut out the env path stuff (1), or keep the path but call just wine (2), or just call wine (bashrc has the path now) same results
>    • sudo /opt/wine-devel/bin/wine xerase.exe.so
>    • sudo env “PATH=/opt/wine-devel/bin:$PATH” wine xerase.exe.so
>    • sudo wine xerase.exe.so
>    • sudo wine /home/test/.wine/drive_c/XERASxlnx/xerase.exe.so
>
> 0078:fixme:wineusb:add_unix_device Interface 1 has 2 alternate settings; using the first one.
> Wine: failed to start L”F:\home\test.wine\drive_c\XERASxlnx\xerase.exe.so”
> Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
> ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found.
>
> So… observations…
>    • Not sure where F: is coming from?  C: I might understand (though frankly, I’d just as soon the program realize we’re using the unix file structure, not any virtualized windows stuff for what we’re doing)
>
> When I look at .wine/dosdevices on both systems…
>
> Build/working system:
> z: -> /
> c: -> ../drive_c
>
> <com devices>
> .
> ..
>
> Not working USB booted system:
> z: -> /
> c: -> ../drive_c
> d:: -> /dev/sda1
> g:: -> /dev/sda
> f:: -> /dev/sd5
> e:: -> /dev/sda2
>
> <com devices>
> d: -> /boot/efi
> f: -> /
> .
> ..
>
> Any suggestions in changes to compilation or environmental variables to get wine to start running it?
>
> I guess I could delete d::, g::, f::, e::, d:, and f: and see if that makes a difference but figured I’d ask the question first
>
> Brent Burkholder
> Extreme Protocol Solutions
> [e-mail]