Build WINE on Windows

Pi_User5 · Post by **Pi_User5** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:25 pm

Is there some way I can build WINE on Windows? I have Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64 and I checked out WINE using Tortoise GIT to the folder E:\wine. Thanks!

cheako · Post by **cheako** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 7:13 pm

This is called cross compiling and it's difficult... Too difficult.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/open-s ... s-2009-01/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2214 ... on-windows

Your best bet is to use or write a tool like this:
http://visualgdb.com/tutorials/linux/

With git and a few other tools it should be possible to write a batch file that builds the project. It's advocated to use a virtual machine, but take a look at colinux.
http://www.colinux.org/

Pi_User5 · Post by **Pi_User5** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 7:49 pm

cheako wrote:t subject: Re: Build WINE on Windows
This is called cross compiling and it's difficult... Too difficult.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/open-s ... s-2009-01/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2214 ... on-windows

Your best bet is to use or write a tool like this:
http://visualgdb.com/tutorials/linux/

With git and a few other tools it should be possible to write a batch file that builds the project. It's advocated to use a virtual machine, but take a look at colinux.
http://www.colinux.org/

Thanks! I am dual booting Windows and Ubuntu 14 LTS and I guess I could compile under Ubuntu but I don't know how to either. I wrote a simple patch and I am needing to test it before I submit it.

cheako · Post by **cheako** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:19 pm

I've done something neat that I called quad booting. I'd startup windows or Linux and then boot the other in a VM, using colinux on windows and kvm on linux. I could boot the system in four different ways: linux, windows, linux->windows, windows->linux. With only two OSes installed.

While running windows you should try booting your physical disk device in a VM(I used qemu and colinux), making sure that you don't boot into windows.

There was a trick to get windows to boot using a different disk device, there is a MS knowlage article about it. Essentially you'd put the driver .sys file into the correct flooder and setup a few registry keys, this trick was getting the correct keys copied them from another system. I'm still amazed that windows needs registry settings to load the disk device driver, seems like you've already got it if your able to read them.

Though Longene is something to watch as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longene

Pi_User5 · Post by **Pi_User5** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:05 am

I'll just build it under Linux. Is there somewhere I can find some simple instructions to build it? My patch only adds one line and I want to submit soon.

cheako · Post by **cheako** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:25 am

For something like that I'd download the debian source and add your patch to the debian/patches folder, then upload the source package to a launchpad ppa. You should be able to do all that using only cygwin.

Pi_User5 · Post by **Pi_User5** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:10 pm

I used this download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine ... 41.tar.bz2 How would I do the launchpad and cygwin thing?

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:24 pm

If you're planning on submitting a patch here you should be using git, not a tarball. http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine

cheako · Post by **cheako** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:34 pm

This has nothing to do with wine, use google for yourself.

https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA