On 22 Jun 2012, at 20:17, Bruno Jesus wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:38 PM, John Emmas wrote:
>> ...
>> BACKTRACE FOLLOWS:-
>> Unhandled exception: unimplemented function
>> msvcp60.dll.??0Init@ios_base@std@@QAE@XZ called in 32-bit code (0x7b83aed2).
>
> Th
On 15 Jun 2012, at 10:41, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
>
> On 06/15/2012 06:22 AM, John Emmas wrote:
>>
>> Recently however, two customers tried to use it with Wine v1.5.35. In
>> both cases the program crashed - apparently because some particular
>> function wasn&
On 15 Jun 2012, at 10:41, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> Hello John!
>
> On 06/15/2012 06:22 AM, John Emmas wrote:
>> Firstly, I'm not a Linux user. I'm a Windows programmer but I have a
>> passing knowledge of Linux (and several friends who are Linux
>
Firstly, I'm not a Linux user. I'm a Windows programmer but I have a passing
knowledge of Linux (and several friends who are Linux programmers). I write a
Windows application which gets launched as a child process by a popular Linux
DAW. My program was first written many years ago when the (t
On 7 Jun 2012, at 21:43, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> --- On Thu, 7/6/12, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
>>
>> Example:
>>wine notepad /home/dank/foo.txt
>> This fails because notepad treats / as the beginning of an
>> option (see http://source.winehq.org/source/programs/notepad/main.c#L616
>> ).
>>
>> So,
On 7 Jun 2012, at 21:04, Dan Kegel wrote:
> John wrote:
>> FWIW the Windows app launches perfectly if I use execl() in the Linux app -
>> and in fact, this has all worked perfectly for years.
>
> That's great. Do you actually pass filenames?
>
Yes, our host app is cross-platform (Windows, Lin
On 7 Jun 2012, at 19:30, Dan Kegel wrote:
> John asked
>> [ How do I launch Windows apps from Unix apps and pass filenames to them?]
>> execl (the_path_to_wine, "wine", path_to_the_windows_program,
>> command_line_parameter_for_windows_app, NULL);
>
> Relative unix paths will often work with W
On 7 Jun 2012, at 10:27, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>
> The short answer is that wine *does* translate from unix-like to windows-like
> file paths so that the application receives the right stuff. You have nothing
> to worry about.
>
I must admit, that was what I hoped to hear! I don't suppose it
Originally, I was going to post this on wine-users but after I wrote it, it
seemed like wine-devel might be more appropriate. Please let me know if I need
to re-submit it to wine-users.
I understand that Wine is mostly used for running Windows apps on Linux - i.e.
in most cases, the user will
