Can a Windows executable file be searched in $PATH, when running it under wine?

Question

$ echo $PATH
/home/t/bin/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

$ which PDFXCview.exe
/home/t/bin//PDFXCview.exe

$ ls /home/t/bin/PDFXCview.exe  -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 t t 97 Mar 18 09:20 /home/t/bin/PDFXCview.exe -> ../program_files/document/formats/pdf/TrackerSoftware/pdfxcview/pdfxchange_portable/PDFXCview.exe

Now,

$ wine /home/t/bin/PDFXCview.exe   &
[1] 23220

But even though PDFXCview.exe is searcheable in $PATH,

$ wine PDFXCview.exe
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\PDFXCview.exe"

Is the failure because that PDFXCview.exe does not appear as a command name in wine PDFXCview.exe, so it is not searched in $PATH?

Is there some way to make PDFXCview.exe in wine PDFXCview.exe searched in $PATH?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There are two ways to make Wine programs available from a path.

1. You can make the Windows program executable, and add its containing directory to your PATH; see Transparently run wine programs and How is Mono magical? for details. You’d then run

   PDFXCview.exe
   

   to start the program.

2. You can add the Wine directory containing the executable to the Wine path. To do this, run wine regedit, find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Environment entry, and edit the Path value (using ; to separate directories). You can use winepath to convert Linux paths to Wine paths. You’d then run

   wine PDFXCview
   

   to start the program.