Where are Wine debug log or how to obtain it?

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Hello,
sometimes, when a game hangs or crashes with WIne, I need to consult the Wine debug log to see what happened and report an issue to Winebugzilla if necessary. With PlayOnLinux I could find this log file in the game wineprefix, called playonlinux.log. But where I can obtain this file on Lutris?
I know there is the “show logs” icon but it is not an equivalent: this not show me a pure WIne log and it missed details. I compared a log file from POL and Lutris, the POL wine log had more details.
Thank you for your help.

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First of all, Wine log detail level in Lutris log is configurable

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But if you require specifically the actual Wine log, you can obtain it by wrapping wine call in a script:

  1. Open Runner options and check which Wine version is used for the game
  2. Go to the relevant directory (see below) and create an executable file named wine+ with following contents:
#!/bin/sh
"${0%+}" "$@" &> wine.log
  1. Configure the game to use this file as the Wine binary
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    This will result in Wine redirecting all output into a file named wine.log placed in the workdir (probably $HOME if not configured).
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I will get a try, thanks.