Wine can't find c drive!

kh2reed · Post by **kh2reed** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:45 pm

Hi,
I am trying to run a game (Touhou 7) on a mac using wine. I installed wine using macports and used the command $ wine $th07e.exe to run my installer
it then gives me this message:

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\.exe"

I read elsewhere that i should type winecfg and create a fake c drive. But when I look in my drives menu, there is already one labeled c. Why can't it use this? I might be missing information, if I am, I will provide it.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:59 pm

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:45 PM, kh2reed <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
I am trying to run a game (Touhou 7) on a mac using wine. I installed wine using macports and used the command $ wine $th07e.exe to run my installer
it then gives me this message:

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\.exe"

I read elsewhere that i should type winecfg and create a fake c drive. But when I look in my drives menu, there is already one labeled c. Why can't it use this? I might be missing information, if I am, I will provide it.

The $ symbol has a special meaning in the terminal. Specifically it
means that the following part is a variable name. To get around this
single quote the filename.

wine '$th07e.exe'

John

kh2reed · Post by **kh2reed** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:10 pm

Okay, I quoted the command and it told me the same thing, wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\$th07e.exe"

One thing I remember that might mean something is that the first time I tried to run the game, a small cream colored window with a wine glass and said that it was updating or configuring -- I can't remember. But then it said it could not locate system32 (same as now) and quit.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:26 pm

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:10 AM, kh2reed <[email protected]> wrote:

Okay, I quoted the command and it told me the same thing, wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\$th07e.exe"

So my questions are:

What file are you trying to execute? "$th07e.exe" is a strange file name.

If that is correct change directory to the one containing that file.
Wine is looking for it in the virtual windows system32 folder because
that file is not in the current folder.

The command to do that is cd

http://ss64.com/bash/cd.html

John

kh2reed · Post by **kh2reed** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:30 pm

The file is th07e.exe. It is in its folder on my desktop, so are you saying that I should find the wine folder and put it there instead?

Hmm I must have misread that last error message, it actually said something different from before >_<

kh2reed · Post by **kh2reed** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:32 pm

I am navigating to the folder containing the .exe before running it, if that is what you mean.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:37 pm

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:30 AM, kh2reed <[email protected]> wrote:

The file is th07e.exe.

Then do not prepend the $ to the name. And no quotes are necessary for that.

--
John M. Drescher

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:39 pm

It is in its folder on my desktop, so are you saying that I should find the wine folder and put it there instead?

wine is not going to search for your file. You need to put it in a
place that wine looks.

The default location is

~/.wine/drive_c

John

kh2reed · Post by **kh2reed** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:01 am

How can I get to the wine folder? It doesn't show up in a search, and it's not in my home folder. Is it hidden?

kh2reed · Post by **kh2reed** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:04 am

Oh wait, its working. Looks like the tutorial I read on the internet wasn't all correct. Thanks!!!!

kh2reed · Post by **kh2reed** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:05 am

At least it's reading the other files in the folder. Strange though, whenever I click out of the window then return, it doesn't take any commands and i have to shut it down.

heshere2 · Post by **heshere2** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:49 pm

@kh2reed

Okay I am having almost the exact same problem, how did you fix it?

kh2reed · Post by **kh2reed** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:51 pm

heshere2 wrote:@kh2reed

Okay I am having almost the exact same problem, how did you fix it?

Its been a while, I'm glad I had this topic on watch.
I was typing the command wrong, it should be just
Wine th07e.exe
After I typed that it worked fine.

oldefoxx · Post by **oldefoxx** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:52 pm

Wine knows exactly where to find the C drive. Not sure about the MAC, but under Ubuntu, it is at /home/[username]/.wine/drive_c.

What it is telling you is that it can't find the exe file located there. When I copied the exe file into the ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 folder, it still was not happy, so I don't know what its problem is in that regard.

What you have to do is prefix the path that leads to the exe file to the wine command call, and assuming you still have it in your Downloads folder (again, I don't know about Mac), upur call would look like this:

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wine ~/Downloads/th07e.exe

Looking at your posts again, I see where you were able to use "wine th07e.exe" successfully. Not sure what all you tried up to that point, but this is a simple way of dealing with that particular error.

olivierfrdierick · Post by **olivierfrdierick** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 4:19 pm

@oldefoxx: Please, don't resurrect 5 year old threads that are already solved. What you say add nothing to what was already said and people have certainly moved to other things after such a long time.

sup2069 · Post by **sup2069** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:48 pm

@olivierfrdierick

His post helped me get a program running. Just because he supplied information to a 4 year old thread doesnt mean it cant help new people migrating in.