Command line Win32 application can't access file system

[avalstsetrot]

Hi, I am on Mac OS Ventura 13.5.1 (Intel) and I have brew-installed wine to run a command-line Win32 application called nqc (Not Quite C https://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/)

I have the following error, which indicates that nqc is unable to access the file firm0332.lgo:

% wine64 nqc.exe -firmware firm0332.lgo
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
0510:err:environ:init_peb starting L"C:\\Program Files\\nqc-win-3-1-r6\\nqc.exe" in experimental wow64 mode
0510:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
Error: could not open file 'firm0332.lgo'

The file firm0332.lgo is in the same directory as nqc.exe. I tried to put it elsewhere and also used absolute and relative links, does not help. E.g. if I put the file into $HOME/.wine/drive_c

% wine64 nqc.exe -firmware C:firm0332.lgo
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
0510:err:environ:init_peb starting L"C:\\Program Files\\nqc-win-3-1-r6\\nqc.exe" in experimental wow64 mode
0510:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
Error: could not open file 'C:firm0332.lgo'

Does anyone have any idea what may be going on? Thanks a lot in advance!

[madewokherd]

0510:err:environ:init_peb starting L"C:\\Program Files\\nqc-win-3-1-r6\\nqc.exe" in experimental wow64 mode

That line suggests you don't have a 32-bit install of Wine to run 32-bit applications, so it's using the 64-bit one (which should work in theory but is not well-tested).

I don't know if that has anything to do with the error though. I don't see anything else there that might be related.

[Gcenx]

0510:err:environ:init_peb starting L"C:\\Program Files\\nqc-win-3-1-r6\\nqc.exe" in experimental wow64 mode

That line suggests you don't have a 32-bit install of Wine to run 32-bit applications, so it's using the 64-bit one (which should work in theory but is not well-tested).

macOS Catalina and later are 64Bit only and upstream wine automatically defaults to wow64 mode.

I don't know if that has anything to do with the error though. I don't see anything else there that might be related.

wow64 mode does have some weirdness but most of the issues I’ve seen were only happing on Apple Silicon running via Rosetta2.