How to "bottle" applications for distribution with wine?

Tim Felgentreff timfelgentreff at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 04:58:35 CDT 2009


King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was working on setting up a Windows game to work on all the Linux machines
> I have, but I don't want to install the full blown Wine on each one. Is
> there a way to "bottle" Wine with application binaries and make it all work
> from a single folder and have it totally self sufficient (similar to
> TransGaming's Cedega for Linux with EVE Online)?

Sure, you can just copy the full wine install into the wineprefix you created 
for your game, e.g. I usually put a "wine" folder next to the drive_c into my
wine prefix for that. Then just make yourself a startup script for you game in 
which you set you PATH to search "$WINEPREFIX/wine/bin" first. This is 
basically how PlayOnLinux does it.
Hope that helps
-Tim



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