Regression test: compiling Wine 2.x on Ubuntu 18.04

[davide84]

Hi everybody,

I own a game which does not run on Wine, there's a bug report on it and I am trying to help. Someone reported that the game used to run (he finished it) and became broken at some point before version 2.18 staging. I am therefore trying to do a regression test to find out what happened.

My problem is, 2.x tagged versions of Wine do not compile on my Ubuntu 18.04.
At the moment I am having a font-related issue similar to https://github.com/bobwya/bobwya/issues/17 and I am having the impression that my current system is just too far away in time from 2.x versions.

My question is: has any of you compiled those versions on recent distributions, does it make sense to even try? Is it just one library issue, or that error is just the beginning? Should I maybe get a 2016 OS to do my regression test?

Thanks

[davide84]

I'll narrow down my question... I am getting this error compiling Wine 2.0:

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Error: Cannot open face courier.ttf
Makefile:174: recipe for target 'coue1255.fon' failed
make[1]: *** [coue1255.fon] Error 1
Makefile:17439: recipe for target 'fonts' failed

This is kind of strange, because:

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~/wine/wine-source$ ls fonts/c*
fonts/courier.sfd  fonts/courier.tt

...any idea

[davide84]

I will reply to myself: something does not match between the font files included in 2.x and the new version of some font tool.

The workaround is to replace the content of the fonts/ folder with font files from a more recent version of Wine (e.g. 5). Literally: checking out version 5, making a backup of the fonts/ folder, checking out version 2.x, replacing the fonts/ folder with the backup version.

This fixes the compiling; running the game creates a series of other errors... I think I will pause my attempt to do a regression test on 2.0.

[Bob Wya]

@davide84

Have you tried using my Schroot-based multilib build script for Debian / Ubuntu:
Github.com : bobwya / build-multilib-wine
The build script is designed to support building Wine or Wine Staging back to version 1.8 ...

You can use the script to do a Git-based regression test...
Since building against a specified Wine (or Wine Staging) Git commit is supported.

Bob

[davide84]

Hi Bob,

thanks for the link, I'll have a look!

[bernd_b]

Using the font folder of version 5.0, I got version 4.18 compiled. Without this trick, I ran into the same error described above.