USB connection problem, home made code

[Rorke]

My workmate made a XP PC program that talks to a motor through a USB.
I've made a link to USB
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB2 ~/.wine/com2

and also 4 of

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com2

as recommended in a forum.

I don't understand how to 'make' wine-git. The Makefile errors, but I've never successfully compiled anything for Linux, so I don't suppose I did it right. (Is there a 'point and click' repository I can get it from?)

Any thoughts, or is this going to be too complex for a Wine noob like me?

[dimesio]

(Is there a 'point and click' repository I can get it from?)

What distro? Have you check your distro's repositories? Links to binary packages for the major ones are here: http://www.winehq.org/site/download

[Rorke]

Correction:
Sorry, my post wasn't very well written.

I have Wine working and installed (Ubuntu 9.04)
I don't have wine-git - except in source files.

USB help data on this site tells me I need to fully install wine-git before trying to sort out USB wine difficulties.

The instructions for how to make wine-git work are highly techy (involving the phrase 'now you can just build it').

If there is a link to a built wine-git, would that help?
If there is another way to get USB working on wine, that is what I'm trying to achieve.
I have .inf files that presumably need some sort of link to work via Linux.

[vitamin]

USB help data on this site tells me I need to fully install wine-git before trying to sort out USB wine difficulties.

Wine does not directly support USB devices. However what you have is a USB->serial device. Those should work work "fine" on standard Wine version.

What exact problem do you have? What isn't working? What Wine version are you using?

[DaVince]

Correction:
Sorry, my post wasn't very well written.

I have Wine working and installed (Ubuntu 9.04)
I don't have wine-git - except in source files.

USB help data on this site tells me I need to fully install wine-git before trying to sort out USB wine difficulties.

The instructions for how to make wine-git work are highly techy (involving the phrase 'now you can just build it').

If there is a link to a built wine-git, would that help?
If there is another way to get USB working on wine, that is what I'm trying to achieve.
I have .inf files that presumably need some sort of link to work via Linux.

http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

That PPA contains the latest official release of Wine (1.1.32). Git versions are not compiled but the next version of Wine contains all good submitted patches officially anyway.

[DaVince]

By the way, "now you can just build it" refers to the standard three commands to compile source code:

./configure
make
sudo make install (or su -c "make install" on some distros)

Note that you need to have the build-essentials package installed in your Ubuntu package manager, and the source code of many libraries that Wine needs. You can find more info on this here: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-7ed3c31 ... 53dc41817b

[Rorke]

Thankyou for your help, unfortunately I'd already tried that and got errors.
I've looked more closely and run

wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trun ... ne-deps.sh
./configure --enable-win64
which gave:
configure: error: no suitable flex found. Please install the 'flex' package.

so I'm still unable to correctly compile. What's a 'flex' package?

[dimesio]

Thankyou for your help, unfortunately I'd already tried that and got errors.
I've looked more closely and run

wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trun ... ne-deps.sh
./configure --enable-win64
which gave:
configure: error: no suitable flex found. Please install the 'flex' package.

so I'm still unable to correctly compile. What's a 'flex' package?

First of all, why are you trying to build 64 bit Wine? It won't actually run anything at this point. I suspect what you really want is to build 32 bit Wine on a 64 bit system, in which case you should be following the instructions here: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

As for "flex," it's a dependency that needs to be installed. You should find it in your distro's repository. That goes for any other package that configure complains about.

[DaVince]

Thankyou for your help, unfortunately I'd already tried that and got errors.
I've looked more closely and run

wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trun ... ne-deps.sh
./configure --enable-win64
which gave:
configure: error: no suitable flex found. Please install the 'flex' package.

so I'm still unable to correctly compile. What's a 'flex' package?

Sounds like you didn't follow the "have the recommended packages installed" step, as instructed by that FAQ entry. Check http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages and download/run http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trun ... ne-deps.sh as linked to on that page, that should get you all required packages/libraries to compile Wine.