Re: wine commandline options

[Tony Lambregts]

Rick Romero wrote:

I was playing with Pegasus Mail (silver list) to see what I could get
working.  It looks like it doesn't detect winsock.dll using it's own
'search algorythm, so the TCP/IP options don't get enabled - hence the
(paraphrased) 'wtf?' in the silver list description.

So, I tried to force Pegasus Mail to load winsock explicitly using the
-Z 128 option:
$wine winpm-32 -Z 128

Try

wine -- winpm-32 -Z 128

but wine comes back with 'Unknown option -Z'.

I'm not quite sure how these are getting parsed, but I see in
misc/options.c parse_options()
	if (*p++ != '-') continue;  /* not an option */
Should exit if the 2nd char isn't a - (am I right?)
BUT, when parse_options returns to OPTIONS_ParseOptions()
The following:
 /* check if any option remains */
   for (i = 1; argv[i]; i++)
   {
       if (!strcmp( argv[i], "--" ))

This is testing for "--" which tells wine to treat arguments after the first (program name) as command line arguments.

{
remove_options( argv, i, 1, 0 );
break;
}
if (argv[i][0] == '-')
{
MESSAGE( "Unknown option '%s'\n\n", argv[i] );
// OPTIONS_Usage();
}
}
Still picks up '-' as an invalid option. My first thought would be to
stop checking for options after the 1st and 2nd chars are not '-' (ie.
after the Win32 program name), but I'm not sure if that's correct.

Any thoughts? (FYI, no, the option didn't make Pmail work.)

You have misread what the function is doing it looks for "--" to tell it that there are command line arguments to be passed onto the programs. Hope this helps (TM.)

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Tony Lambregts