Very basic question concerning compiling WINE

[Tony Lambregts]

Steven Rubenstein wrote:

> *** I hope this isn't appropriate, in that I posted this same question 
> to wine-user at winehq.com.  I'm still not sure who reads what.  ***
>
> I am an intermediate Linux user. I dual boot into Redhat 7.3 and 
> Windows ME. It would be nice to be able to run the stuff in Windows 
> from Linux (for 2 reasons: to avoid booting and rebooting, and trying 
> to get away from Windows altogether someday), so I am now learning WINE.
>
> I see a bunch of postings on this list about compiling. Question: 
> Would I expect to compile, as opposed to just running the WINE 
> configuration that came with Redhat 7.3? (Probably a pretty broad 
> question, but if anyone has a word to say, I'm all ears.)

One reason would be that the wine that came with your distribution is 
out of date (Yes by a couple of months) Development on wine is very 
active but at this point is still alpha, and each release has more 
features and is (supposed to be) more stable.  A bug report relating to 
a release of wine that is more then a month old is usually not very 
usefull to developers. Also the only way a patch to fix a bug can be 
used is if you compile from source. Finally the best  reason for 
compiling is that you get a wine that is custom built for your machine.  


Tony Lambregts