[wine-devel] Troubles configuring and building wine-1.5.30 on Debian wheezy

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2013-05-21 18:27-0700 Austin English wrote:

> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Alan W. Irwin
> <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
>> Can somebody advise me about the importance (or not) of the remaining
>> two missing 32-bit libraries (libdbus and gstreamer)?  For example,
>> are they worth some extraordinary measures such as downloading the
>> binary i386 -dev package and extracting the static 32-bit versions
>> separately from that package?
>
> For your purposes, libdbus/gstreamer probably aren't important.
>
> You should be aware that cygwin doesn't work terribly well under Wine,
> however. There are several open bugs:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12104
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19800
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19801
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19858
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19859
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21424
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018

Thanks, Austin, for that additional information.  In light of that
information I will just ignore libdbus/gstreamer and concentrate on
configuring access to 32-bit png.

The above list of cygwin-related issues seems pretty serious. I ran
into the setup.exe problem detailed by 24018 myself for wine-1.5.19
and also my latest 32-bit build attempt (without png) of wine-1.5.30.
I don't know how to work around 24018 (if that is even possible) due
to my lack of Cygwin experience so I couldn't evaluate the other
Cygwin issues detailed above.

This is my first experience with Cygwin (I only wanted to use it to
test software builds like was so successful for me with MinGW/MSYS
under wine-1.5.19).  However, in light of the above issues and my lack
of experience with Cygwin, I have decided to give up on Cygwin for now
and just continue with MinGW/MSYS builds and tests of my software
projects under Wine.  Of course, even for that case the wine-1.5.30
build issues that are the subject of this thread are still relevant so
I will continue with trying to figure out the png 32-bit library issue
and ultimately try to see whether I can obtain similar success for my
MinGW/MSYS software builds and tests under wine-1.5.30 like I
currently experience with wine-1.5.19.

Alan
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