Running Wine from source tree

[Mike McCormack]

James Liggett wrote:

> I'm doing a lot of testing, and I was wondering if I can run Wine from
> within its source tree without having to reinstall it after every build.
> If it can be done without conflicting with an existing installation of
> Wine, how do I do it?

Yes, it can be done.  In fact, I don't have Wine installed to make sure 
that I don't get confused as to which version I'm testing.

I have the attached script (exists at ~/bin/wine_envsetup) to set up my 
environment (assumes wine in ~/wine), but running ~/wine/wine will also 
work.

You can set up a ~/.wine from the source tree using:

./tools/wineprefixcreate --use-wine-tree .

Then add an alias to set up your environment to your ~/.bashrc, 
something like this:

export OLDPATH=$PATH
alias winehq='. $HOME/bin/wine_envsetup'

You can then run 'winehq' to setup your environment.  I find this 
configuration useful to because I have multiple wine environments, so 
multiple ~/bin/*_envsetup scripts.  It points everything to the right 
place so that running 'wine' on the command line will run the wine 
binary from the setup I'm interested in, not a shell script.

Again, you don't need to go to all this trouble if you're happy to run 
the ~/wine/wine script in the source directory.

Mike
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#!/bin/sh
# set up the Wine environment

CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs at cvs.winehq.org:/home/wine
PATH=$OLDPATH:$HOME/wine:$HOME/wine/tools/winegcc
WINESERVER=$HOME/wine/server/wineserver 
WINELOADER=$HOME/wine/loader/wineloader 
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.cxoffice/default 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/wine/libs/unicode:$HOME/wine/dlls:$HOME/wine/libs/wine
WINEDBG=$HOME/wine/debugger/winedbg 
WINEDLLPATH=$HOME/wine/dlls:$HOME/wine/programs 
export CVSROOT PATH WINESERVER WINEPREFIX LD_LIBRARY_PATH WINEDBG WINEDLLPATH WINELOADER