(Feature Request) Command Line Interface

[rdnckreaper]

My header may be completely wrong for what I am thinking so I will describe it here.
What I am looking for is a way to write a shell script that when ran will open up a particular program in a particular 'container' inside winegui.
I set up winegui with a game server application designed for windows and it works perfectly. The problem is that if I attempt to open the server.exe without going through winegui it will attempt to run in regular wine which doesn't work for some reason.

[melroy89]

Try to execute your application like so:

WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.winegui/prefixes/name wine /path/to/your/server.exe

So that will then use the WINEPREFIX environment variable from bare wine executable. Which is the standard of using plain wine command line 😊.

Meaning Winegui will not try to vendor lock you in the application. Allowing you full access to the wine command line as well.

[melroy89]

@rdnckreaper And did that work for you?

[rdnckreaper]

Sorry for the late reply I have really busy between work and my wine issues...lol Unfortunately, that did not work for the scenario. My experience with wine has always been limited to PlayOnLinux and I have never actually used just wine. I was having issues with POL and getting steamcmd to run so I looked for alternatives and that is where I found your application. I honestly don't think the issues I ran into were directly related to your application and more my lack on knowledge and having a whole bunch of different things installed on my system. That being said here is what I ran into: When running that command with my parameters in it, it wouldn't activate on the Wine 6.0.3 version installed on my system. So after some research I found where WineGUI runs off the local wine version so I upgraded to the 8.0.1 (I think) from winehq because I also found that wineprefix is unstable / unsupported with 6.0.3. Then I attempted to run the application and it would start but then it would fail. So, then I attempted to make a whole new machine in WineGUI and it would fail on the steamcmd application needed to download the vrising server application. It would give me an error saying that 250MB more storage space was needed to update the application. I have been working on this most of the day today and I ended up removing everything, including wine, and starting over fresh and was actually able to get steamcmd installed and then use it to install the vrising server though it is running with regular wine. Plus I was able to create a script with the info you gave me and now it will load when I reboot my system.

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[melroy89]

You could just start the server by executing the VRisingServer.exe file directly: wine VRisingServer.exe.

There is also a bat file present I think called start_server_example.bat, which can be execute via either: wine start <bat file> or wine cmd /c <bat file>

And of course the WINEPREFIX=... can still be put in front of all the wine commands.

[rdnckreaper]

I tried that and it wouldn't load the files in that prefix. It actually created a .wine folder and built a completely new instance of wine. Even though I was trying to run it from the folder in the .winegui folder it wouldn't access those files for some reason.

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On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 3:10 PM Melroy van den Berg ***@***.***> wrote: You could just start the server by executing the VRisingServer.exe file directly: wine VRisingServer.exe. There is also a bat file present I think called start_server_example.bat, which can be execute via either: wine start <bat file> or wine cmd /c <bat file> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#12 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIMA7C3OEYU3GY5NYC4OBBTXEVGBXANCNFSM6AAAAAAXSLF5HA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>