/powershell-wrapper-for-wine

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powershell-wrapper for wine

Wrapper for powershell.exe from wine, that gets Waves Central in wine a bit going. Uses pwsh.exe from Powershell Core to get at least some functionality for powershell.exe from wine.

Note: This is minimal powershell for Waves Central; If you are looking for more feature-rich powershell in wine see https://github.com/PietJankbal/Chocolatey-for-wine

Install

 wget https://github.com/PietJankbal/powershell-wrapper-for-wine/raw/master/install_pwshwrapper.exe

Then do:

 wine install_pwshwrapper.exe

Notes:

  • Powershell Core (and ConEmu) are downloaded and installed at first invokation of powershell (i.e. wine powershell`) (ConEmu is installed to work around bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49780)
  • For an unattended install you could do (thanks brunais fot the tip):
wget https://github.com/PietJankbal/powershell-wrapper-for-wine/raw/master/install_pwshwrapper.exe
wine install_pwshwrapper.exe
wine powershell -noni -c 'echo "done"'

Notes about Waves Central:

  • Use most recent Wine-Staging (not vanilla-wine) to avoid several issues.

  • After install the 1st run will still fail with message that powershell failed; cd into the directory where the Waves Central program is and try again. That message should be gone then.

  • To avoid black window: run with Wine-staging >= 6.3; this bug should be fixed in the most recent wine-(staging) versions

  • Newer Waves version like 12.0.5 and maybe some earlier versions fail with "Central has encountered a system permissions issue". Run with Wine-staging >= 6.4; this bug should be fixed in upcoming Wine-Staging 6.4.

Some additional remarks:

  • If you want to compile yourself instead of downloading binaries:

    Build powershell:

i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -municode  -mconsole main.c -lurlmon -luser32 -lntdll -s -o powershell32.exe

x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -municode  -mconsole main.c -lurlmon -luser32 -lntdll -s -o powershell64.exe

Then do (Assuming ~/.wine is where your wineprefix is)

cp -rf ./powershell64.exe ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe
  
cp -rf ./powershell32.exe ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/syswow64/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe
  • WINEARCH=win32 is not supported