wine users - Jan 2010 - Looking for developers trying to build Windows apps on Wine

So far, Firefox (with msvc 2005) and a couple other apps (one using open watcom)
build properly on wine.  I'm pecking away at the problems that get in the
way (particularly cmd bugs at the moment).

If you're trying to build a Windows app on Wine by running your
normal Windows build procedure (as opposed to using winegcc),
I'd like to hear from you, especially if a bug in cmd or some
commandline executable that ships or should ship with wine is getting
in your way.

Thanks,
Dan

I have been trying to do this for a long long time. When this works I
would be very happy as this is the only reason I need to fight with
slow performing VMs.

The first obstacle for me is installing  Visual Studio (2005 and 2008
full) in wine.

John

>> Visual Studio 2005trial ?installed fine. It took a very long time and
>> appeared to stall (no progress but little cpu or disk) at times but it
>> did complete. I got most of my build tools installed. I use
>> cmake-2.8.0. Anyways the first step is to build Qt 4.6.0 under visual
>> studio. I tried that 3 to 5 times in a couple of different methods
>> (msbuild, vcbuild, ide, nmake) but was not successful. The
>> multithreaded building methods (ide - batch build, vsbuild,msbuild)
>> did not use multiple threads and crashed during the build. nmake was
>> slow and I believe also exhibited the pauses like I mentioned in
>> installing visual studio. I am a little too busy at the day job to
>> spend much more time right now at this.
>
> Coincidentally, I got Chrome to link in Visual Studio 2005 trial today.
> And there was one step in the build process where I had to
> tell it to only use one process, or it would misbehave.
> It's also important to run the pdb server manually and make it
persistent,
> else you can get hangs.
>
This seems to have improved things a lot.

wine mspdbsrv -start -spawn
>
> The hang during install is very different, it's a known issue with msi,
> not related to the hangs building things with visual studio that
> happen if you don't start the pdb server by hand. ?(I have my
> build script start it.)
>
> Maybe I'll have a look at building Qt, then. ?Feel like filing a quick
> bug report about it?
>
I found a way to get Qt installed. I installed the VisualStudio2008 version

http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2008

Then inside that I reconfigured it for 2005
(QMAKESPEC="win32-msvc2005") and rebuilt it entirely using nmake.

After Qt built I started building the libraries needed for this
project. These libraries use cmake to generate project files. The
first configure in the cmake-gui of cmake-2.8.0 on each project fails
with no progress after the first step however closing the window then
starting again with cmake-gui then works. After that I can load the
project with visual studio and all builds fine. I had to add an
environment variable for cmake to get my configs to work. For some
reason cmake thinks my 32 bit wine install under 64 bit gentoo is a 64
bit machine and then in my CMakeLists.txt file I detect a 64 bit
machine and then use the environment variable ProgramW6432 which was
not set in my environment. At this point I have 2 out of 5 libraries
(in house stuff) built. I will try the rest as soon as I can.

Thanks,
John

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:14 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This seems to have improved things a lot.
>
> wine mspdbsrv -start -spawn
I should have mentioned
 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21259
which suggests
 mspdbsrv.exe -start -spawn -shutdowntime -1
I should add that to winetricks.
> I found a way to get Qt installed. I installed the VisualStudio2008 version
>
> http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2008
>
> Then inside that I reconfigured it for 2005
> (QMAKESPEC="win32-msvc2005") and rebuilt it entirely using nmake.
That sounds like a fine recipe, thanks.
> After Qt built I started building the libraries needed for this
> project. These libraries use cmake to generate project files. The
> first configure in the cmake-gui of cmake-2.8.0 on each project fails
> with no progress after the first step however closing the window then
> starting again with cmake-gui then works. After that I can load the
> project with visual studio and all builds fine. I had to add an
> environment variable for cmake to get my configs to work. For some
> reason cmake thinks my 32 bit wine install under 64 bit gentoo is a 64
> bit machine and then in my CMakeLists.txt file I detect a 64 bit
> machine and then use the environment variable ProgramW6432 which was
> not set in my environment. At this point I have 2 out of 5 libraries
> (in house stuff) built. I will try the rest as soon as I can.
Awesome!   Good luck, keep me posted.
- Dan