Execute Shell Commands from Program Running in Wine

Execute Shell Commands from Program running in WINE

Edit: user1182474's comment is correct; Wine doesn't isolate the programs it runs. (It tries to hide it, but not very thoroughly.) I totally failed at using Google. Psen's comment below is more correct, and references the FAQ. (Note that, for that to work, you may need to have the program's directory available through a Wine drive mapping. Or, see Anonymous Replier's answer.)

== Old Answer ==

Wine isolates the programs it runs. The applications are, if all works as intended, presented with an environment indistinguishable from Windows. Unfortunately for your purposes, that means that you can't access the features of the host OS (Linux). I mean, you could patch Wine to do that, but I get the impression that it would be more work than it's worth.

There is hope! Cygwin is a Unix-like environment for Windows. You could install Cygwin in Wine, and use Cygwin to run your shell script. (Apparently, installing with 'winetricks cygwin' is easiest) Invoke Cygwin's bash shell (inside some Wine program) like this:

c:\cygwin\bin\bash  myscript

Of course, change c:\cygwin to wherever you install it.

Running WINE on bash ubuntu

WINE is going to want the fake Windows path, not the real linux one. Example:

wine "D:\Setup\URPROG.EXE"

Here's the documentation.

You can run it with the local path if you do 'wine start' like this (from the docs):

wine start /Unix "$HOME/installers/TronSetup.exe"

How to execute shell scripts from 32-bit Wine on 64-bit Linux?

I am a user of the program in question and I did some experimenting with it.

Not 32-bit vs. 64-bit but "shared object" vs. "executable" ?

Running file /bin/dash it prints:

/bin/dash: ELF 64-bit LSB  shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), ...

Running file /bin/bash however prints:

/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB  executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), ...

dash is a "shared object" while bash is an "executable". Clearly /bin/dash seems to work like an executable in some way (I don't know the technical details here), but it seems that this difference matters to Wine.

I got the same error as you reported (can't start 64 bit process) for Wine 1.4, but the error I got on newer versions of Wine was wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\bin\sh..

If you actually just replace /bin/sh with /bin/bash (even though that's a 64-bit binary) it will work. Wine also didn't seem to like running a symlink, but copying over /bin/bash worked.

So first back up the existing (symlinked) /bin/sh with:

sudo cp /bin/sh /bin/sh_orig

Then copy bash to sh:

sudo cp /bin/bash /bin/sh

Then when I ran Wine with the program and its calls to /bin/sh work fine.

Alternatively, you download a 32-bit shell directly

Pull down the .deb file for the 32-bit bash shell:

 wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bash/bash_4.3-6ubuntu1_i386.deb

I your home directory, extract it into a folder:

mkdir ~/bash_4.3-6ubuntu1_i386
dpkg -x bash_4.3-6ubuntu1_i386.deb ~/bash_4.3-6ubuntu1_i386

Copy the bash script into /bin/sh:

sudo mv /bin/sh /bin/sh64original
sudo cp ~/bash_4.3-6ubuntu1_i386/bin/bash /bin/sh
sudo chown root:root /bin/sh

Or run schroot, but still must copy /bin/bash to /bin/sh

Basile Starynkevitch mentioned above about setting up a 32-bit shell in an schroot environment. I did that with an Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit environment and ran into the same issue with the dash vs. bash "shared object" vs. "executable" (but when I copied /bin/bash to /bin/sh it worked), so that helped me realize that the distinction wasn't the 32-bit vs. 64-bit difference but the format of the shell executables that mattered to Wine.

If you would like I can post details for setting up the schroot evnironment but basically I followed the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebootstrapChroot but needed to configure the /etc/apt/sources.list to have the full list of packages (as are installed in my default host system) for apt-get install wine to work.

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