Wine PATH through command line and not persistent

Question

I know I can change my wine PATH through regedit, but I actually need to change the PATH just for a single run.

For example, I have my software called frontend.exe, this depends on example/mylib.dll, I need to invoke frontend.exe with example/ on PATH. But I may not set this on the registry be cause this configuration is just for this application, not for every wine application...

Can you just set it in an environment variable before your run `frontend.exe`? — Gabe, Aug 30 '11 at 21:04
Would be easier if there were a WINEPATH enviroment variable or command line argument because I am calling my wine application from inside a shell script. — André Puel, Aug 30 '11 at 21:09
André, did you manage to solve this (now rather old) problem? — Joachim Breitner, Oct 15 '15 at 21:08
@JoachimBreitner Ironically, wine supports the WINEPATH variable. If, in your Unix Shell, you export WINEPATH, once you launch wine it will use this to populate the PATH environment variable inside wine. — André Puel, Oct 16 '15 at 13:45
@JoachimBreitner I could not find anything on Google regarding WINEPATH. But I just tested it and it works as expected. You have to provide the paths in the Windows format (\ instead of /), however, as wine will not convert it. — André Puel, Oct 16 '15 at 21:25
Indeed, it works. Would you mind turning this into an answer? — Joachim Breitner, Oct 17 '15 at 11:20

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '15 at 17:34

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Wine supports the WINEPATH variable. If, in your Unix Shell, you export WINEPATH, once you launch wine it will use this to populate the PATH environment variable inside wine.

Example:

$ WINEPATH=anything\\it//willNotBeParsed wine cmd
Wine CMD Version 5.1.2600 (1.6.2)

C:\>echo %PATH%
anything\it//willNotBeParsed;C:\windows\system32;C:\windows;C:\windows\system32\wbem

answered Oct 19 '15 at 17:34

André Puel

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I know this is old, But I am stuck exporting java jre to wine, I set `WINEPATH` to `/usr/lib/openjdk-8/bin` and it went as it is in wine's %PATH% i.e. the unix path not the windows compatible path name. How can I convert it to windows compatible path as environment variable. – Abhinav Kulshreshtha Jul 30 '19 at 07:17
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@AbhinavKulshreshtha You can use the `winepath` command line tool, e.g. `winepath -w /usr/lib/openjdk-8/bin`. – s-m-e Dec 16 '19 at 16:32

Wine PATH through command line and not persistent

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