VS support being worked on?

cmd · Post by **cmd** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:52 am

I have a mix of questions between Linux and Wine so I hope I posted this in the right spot. Does anyone know if Visual Studio 2012 is being worked on to be supported? I've also tried to get GCC to run instead but as I am a newbie to Linux I can't seem to get seem to get plain executables to run unless wine supports them and since the thing I downloaded of GCC doesn't have an exe file I can't figure out how to install it. I can get the terminal to the directory but I can't for the life of me get it to run the exeish file I see which is a .sh file called INSTALL.sh.

Also as a side question, is there a place to request that particular games/apps be supported or are we excepted to edit the code for ourselves?

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:22 am

Wine doesn't have a list of "supported" apps/games, and developers don't focus on getting specific ones to run. The goal is for all Windows apps to work, and if one doesn't, file bugs for the problems if none have already been filed. In the case of VS2012, it depends on .NET 4.5, which doesn't yet work in Wine, and it is also affected by bug 17273, a longstanding bug that affects a lot of apps.

cmd · Post by **cmd** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:02 pm

Oh ok thanks for explaining that. Is the bug being worked on or since the developers don't focus on getting specific ones to work we the users just have to hope that in the next version it will? Do the developers work on fixing the bugs that we report?

Also if there isn't supported games/apps then what is the database considered to be?

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:37 pm

Developers do fix reported bugs, but which ones they fix and when is entirely their choice; Wine is a volunteer project.

The AppDB is for users to report their experiences running various apps in Wine, good or bad, for the benefit of other users.

cmd · Post by **cmd** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:53 pm

Oh ok Thanks again for explaining that.

Post by **DanKegel** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:26 pm

For what it's worth, I think Visual Studio 2010 is somewhat close to working.

As Dimesio wrote, Visual Studio 2012 is blocked by http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17273 /
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17195
which is a hard one. A couple people have tried hard, but nobody's come
up with a usable patch yet, let alone one that could make it into official wine.

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