wine users - Jun 2008 - I don't know how to compile Wine!

I'm a Linux noob. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and understand that, in order to
get FEAR to run, I need to remove Wine 1.0, download the source and a patch and
then recompile Wine.

I have no idea how to do this. The How To section on the AppsDB makes
assumptions that you know what to do already.

Where can I find an explanation of the process? I've had no luck searching
probably because I don't know the correct terms!

Many thanks.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:46 PM, RedMartin <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I'm a Linux noob. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and understand that, in
order to get FEAR to run, I need to remove Wine 1.0, download the source and a
patch and then recompile Wine.
>
> I have no idea how to do this. The How To section on the AppsDB makes
assumptions that you know what to do already.
>
> Where can I find an explanation of the process? I've had no luck
searching probably because I don't know the correct terms!
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

While not specifically about that, should have most of the info you need.

The regression testing howto isn't really applicable, to be honest. It's
some very advanced stuff involving checking wine out of the development
repository, which you totally don't need to do. Try this:

Download the source of whatever version you're interested in (you want a
.tar.bz2 file, that's an archive format like .zip)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=77449

Extract the downloaded file (try right-clicking in your file manager and going
to something like "extract"). This should create a folder of the same
name as the archive (i.e. if you downloaded the source archive
wine-1.1.0.tar.bz2, extracting it should create the folder
"wine-1.1.0" containing the sources for wine.

Download your patch (should be a .patch file) and save it into the root of this
folder as well.

Open a command line (terminal). Navigate to the wine directory. For example, if
you extracted your archive into /home/brian/development/wine-1.1.0, then you
would open a terminal and issue the following command: (cd means "change
directory").

cd /home/brian/development/wine-1.1.0

Apply your patch using the following command:
patch -p1 < whateverfile.patch

Look carefully at the output. If it tells you that "hunks failed",
stop. Your patch didn't apply, because the source has changed too much from
the version the patch was made for. Are you sure you downloaded the version of
wine the patch was made for? Post here for more help if this happens.

If the patch applied successfully, it's time to compile wine. Open up your
package manager (i.e. synaptic) and remove the "wine" package, which
you will be replacing. Then install the build-essential package. This includes
the gcc compilers and some libraries which you will need to build wine.
Additionally, install the packages "nasm", "yasm" and
"bison".

Go back to your terminal and type the command

./configure

Watch the output carefully. If it tells you that you need something else that
I've forgotten, search for it on Synaptic or post here and we'll tell
you what package to download. If the command finished successfully, you'll
see it end with "run make depend && make to compile wine". In
that case, run the following command:

(if you have a single core machine, run:)
make depend && make

(if you have dual core machine, instead run:)
make depend && make -j 3

(quad core machine, instead run:)
make depend && make -j 6

Then sit back and grab a cup of coffee, wine will take anywhere from 15 minutes
to 45 minutes to compile, depending on your machine.

If the make command produces errors, come back here. Otherwise, if it finishes
successfully, issue the command "sudo make install" to install wine,
and type your password when prompted.

You can now use the "wine" command to run your newly patched wine. :)
Check to make sure you're running the expected version using wine --version.