Cannot use PREFIX with wine 1.1.4

[GNU_Raziel]

I've decided to try out some games with wine 1.1.4 to see if there is improvements (mainly with Bioshock) and, as always, I first created a prefix for those tests.

My first surprise was this message :

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Note: wineprefixcreate is deprecated and shouldn't be needed anymore.
         WINEPREFIX creation and updates now happen automatically when needed.

So I said : "it's just a note, no need to panic since wineprefixcreate seems to work correctly".

But then I was affaid to see that EVERY app I tried to install crash for sure, no matter what it is !!!

Example of what i done and worked for long ago :

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wineprefixcreate --prefix /home/raziel/test/
WINEPREFIX=/home/raziel/test/ wine /media/cdrom/setup.exe

I checked the test folder, it have all the folders/files a prefix must have !!

And before someone say : "YOU have a problem, it's not wine fault" may I add that after saving my whole main prefix I saw that, this the default prefix, all work like a charm, no crash when i try to install.

Many users, including me, love the possibility to create a separated prefix when and where we want so don't tell me wine 1.1.4 and newer will lack CORE/EXTREMLY USEFULL this feature ??!!!

If yes, I do not fear to say this is a great mistake and hope dev will fix/reactivate this feature as soon as possible !!

If it's a bug then now ou know it and hope it will be fixed as soon as possible.

[pc_bil]

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=1004

[GNU_Raziel]

This link solve nothing, using wineboot instead of wineprefixcreate end to the EXACT SAME issue.

My conclusion :
Wine 1.1.3, 1.1.4 and newer are useless until we can use prefix as we wish like before, I will stay with wine 1.1.2 and report it as the last usable wine version on every forum I know and make it the newest wine version usable with our project, PlayOnLinux.

If dev are smart they will quickly revert/fix this nonsence...

[vitamin]

My first surprise was this message :

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Note: wineprefixcreate is deprecated and shouldn't be needed anymore.
         WINEPREFIX creation and updates now happen automatically when needed.

wineprefixcreate is deprecated - don't use it. You should use wineboot ex:

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export WINEPREFIX=/my/new/prefix
wineboot

That's if you really must create prefix to copy some files there. If the next step for you is to install program - then just install it.

But then I was affaid to see that EVERY app I tried to install crash for sure, no matter what it is !!!

Remove that prefix, and properly run the installer. Note that your other commands are incorrect. You should NOT use *NIX paths with Wine. If you really want to, read the FAQ: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df ... b8edc21619

If that still doesn't work - post the complete terminal output.

[GNU_Raziel]

I wrote it before, I tried using wineboot to generate prefix (and it does the EXACT SAME prefix as wineprefixcreate does, diff them, no differences) and it crash the EXACT SAME way as before.

I add this is only an INSTALL problem, running with wine 1.1.4 an app installed with wine 1.1.2 in a prefix is ok so it's probably an install bug with wine 1.1.3/1.1.4...wine 1.1.3/1.1.4 crash every install exe if it's not installed in the default prefix.

Until a proper fix, I install all my apps with wine 1.1.2 in the prefix I want and then run them with wine 1.1.4 (thx to PlayOnLinux app witch manage wine version very easily)