wine users - Sep 2011 - Install and run Wine purely in/from the home folder

Hello folks.

I have a little question for you.

First to the background. I have a windows program (command line based) that is
able to run just fine in the wine environment.
Now I want to run it on our linux HPC server (no multi-threading and so on is
needed). There is no wine installed by default, and as I'm no admin I
can't install it there. So is it possible to make wine run purely out of my
home folder? Then I would have an "wine package" that I could simply
copy in there and run the program...

Thank's for any help.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:50, ubyx <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hello folks.
>
> I have a little question for you.
>
> First to the background. I have a windows program (command line based) that
is able to run just fine in the wine environment.
> Now I want to run it on our linux HPC server (no multi-threading and so on
is needed). There is no wine installed by default, and as I'm no admin I
can't install it there. So is it possible to make wine run purely out of my
home folder? Then I would have an "wine package" that I could simply
copy in there and run the program...
>
> Thank's for any help.
You can compile wine and run it from any directory.
Just use sthg like /path/to/wine path/to/your/prog.exe

Ok, thanks.

So have I to compile with the correct prefixes. Somethink like

./configure -prefix=$home/wine_for_me

then I compile and install.
After that I could simply copy the wine folder to my folder on the server?

I'll try that.
Thank you very much!

Fr??d??ric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can compile wine and run it from any directory.
Correct.
> Just use sthg like /path/to/wine path/to/your/prog.exe
No, most Windows programs need to be run from their own directories.

$ cd path/to/your
$ /path/to/wine prog.exe

perryh wrote:
> Fr??d??ric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > You can compile wine and run it from any directory.
> > 
> 
> Correct.
> 
> 
> > Just use sthg like /path/to/wine path/to/your/prog.exe
> > 
> 
> No, most Windows programs need to be run from their own directories.
> 
> $ cd path/to/your
> $ /path/to/wine prog.exe


Yes, that's need to be done with my program.
Otherwise it will not find some files.

Another question:
The program has a high i/o frequencyto an access database while calculating.
This makes the program ca. 5 times slower than in a native windows environment.
Is there a dirty little trick to speed this up a little in wine?

Thanks. So far it works nice (despite the speed).