wine users - Apr 2011 - Standalone Wine for console Win32 executables

Hi,

First of all, I've searched for a while about this topic both on google and
using the search form of this forum before posting and couldn't find
anything, so I'm asking it here in the hope someone knows the answer.

I have a lot of simple old console executables for windows that I'd like to
execute under Linux using bash scripts. They work well with Wine, but I'd
like my scripts to work even if wine isn't installed. I don't have
access to the sourcecode of these executables, and I can't reverse engineer
them because of a lack of skills on the topic.
So I was wondering if there's any way to get a minimalistic wine build that
would be standalone and could be used to launch a win32 console program with a
command line similar to this: ./winestandalone win32program
I'd like to avoid dependencies for anything else than what's in the
working directory. I don't care if I have to include libraries as well, as
long as it works from a usb-drive under Ubuntu without wine installed.

I know something similar exists for OSX, it's called WineBottler.

Thank you very much!

FG

with Wineskin (Mac OS X) I have to put basically everything Wine may need
including Wine all in a folder... this is mainly tons of libraries... this ends
up being close to 300 files, mainly since I have to have a full X server as
well...  you'll have to get it all handled right so the libraries look for
other libraries in the right places, etc... not sure how to do that on Linux,
but it must be possible.

Oh, I see. It'll take some more time then ...
I'll report once done!

Thank you all!

FG

why didn't you just do a ./configure --prefix=$HOME/Desktop/temp or
something so 'make install' would have put it all there... then you have
just Wine and nothing else in that temp folder, and you can pull out any extra
Wine stuff you don't need for the particular program.