wine directory doesn't have takeown command

[eri0o]

Hello,

I am trying to run a program, unfortunately it calls takeown.exe and it fails. Takeown is not needed though. How would I add a stub takeown command to my wine directory?

Thanks

[Bob Wya]

Hello,

I am trying to run a program, unfortunately it calls takeown.exe and it fails. Takeown is not needed though. How would I add a stub takeown command to my wine directory?

Thanks

@eri0o

Being a bit stupid I would create a dummy executable file with AutoIt...
Which is easy: just create an empty script and compile it to a .exe executable file.

I'm sure there's an easier way - but it's just what I know well...

Bob

[DarkShadow44]

Mind providing more information about what program that is? Maybe it makes sense to add a dummy takeown into wine, when that resolves the issue.
Can you compile wine from sources? If so, I could give you a patch to test.

[eri0o]

The program is Adventure Game Studio. The takeown.exe command is called when building a game for Linux from the Adventure Game Studio.

[eri0o]

Hey, I still didn't solve the issue.

Yes I can build Wine from source.

The software is Adventure Game Studio (which is open source but Windows only). The problem happens when you build your game for Linux. The code works in Windows.

[Bob Wya]

Hey, I still didn't solve the issue.
... blah, blah

Much simpler solution just symlink takeown.exe to the ping.exe (which is a dummy executable under Wine):

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cd "${WINEPREFIX:-${HOME%/}/.wine}/drive_c/windows/system32"
ln -s "ping.exe" "takeown.exe"

Bob