alias defined in bash_profile doesn't work for wine, while the same path given in CLI works

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darwinexe
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alias defined in bash_profile doesn't work for wine, while the same path given in CLI works

Post by darwinexe »

I defined an alias for a program LTSpice as follows in .bash_profile:

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alias ltspice="/Users/me/Desktop/trashh/ltc/scad3.exe"
I want to run it as

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$ wine ltspice
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ltspice.exe"
$
However this works:

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$ wine /Users/me/Desktop/trashh/ltc/scad3.exe
How can I get alias to work?
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Re: alias defined in bash_profile doesn't work for wine, while the same path given in CLI works

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Your giving wine a Unix path when it’s expecting a Windows path so it ignores the path

To use a Unix path you would need to instead do;

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wine start /unix "/Users/me/Desktop/trashh/ltc/scad3.exe"
Also you don’t need to launch via terminal if you got the application working you could instead make a Apple script launcher.
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Re: alias defined in bash_profile doesn't work for wine, while the same path given in CLI works

Post by DarkShadow44 »

Gcenx wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2020 9:09 am Your giving wine a Unix path when it’s expecting a Windows path so it ignores the path
Actually, that's not the case - wine can start a program using a Unix path just fine.

The actual problem here is, that wine doesn't know about aliases. The alias is resolved by bash, you can't pass an alias to wine like that.
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Re: alias defined in bash_profile doesn't work for wine, while the same path given in CLI works

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I could use an Automator made app. Could you tell me which executable to use for wine path among these two? I have both in PATH rn.

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/Users/me/Applications/Wine Stable.app/Contents/Resources/start/bin
/Users/me/Applications/Wine Stable.app/Contents/Resources/wine/bin
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Re: alias defined in bash_profile doesn't work for wine, while the same path given in CLI works

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Never mind, its in /Users/me/Applications/Wine\ Stable.app/Contents/MacOS/wine
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Re: alias defined in bash_profile doesn't work for wine, while the same path given in CLI works

Post by Gcenx »

The correct location is

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 /Users/me/Applications/Wine Stable.app/Contents/Resources/wine/bin
as that contains the other components of wine.

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 /Users/me/Applications/Wine\ Stable.app/Contents/MacOS/wine
Means your launching the wrapper to then launch wine and not all environment variables will be passed onto wine correctly.
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Re: alias defined in bash_profile doesn't work for wine, while the same path given in CLI works

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Gcenx wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:52 am The correct location is

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 /Users/me/Applications/Wine Stable.app/Contents/Resources/wine/bin
as that contains the other components of wine.

Launching via

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 /Users/me/Applications/Wine\ Stable.app/Contents/MacOS/wine
Means your launching the wrapper to then launch wine and not all environment variables will be passed onto wine correctly.
Okay I have changed it! Thanks a lot
https://i.stack.imgur.com/52lJ2.png works great!
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