Installing Wine's build dependencies (wt-install-dev)

[Francois Gouget]

So wt-install-dev now supports openSUSE Tumbleweed (in addition to Leap 
15.1) and can also automate adding the contrib section on Debian (for 
the TrueType fonts) and also Ubuntu. I'm also not opposed to extending 
it to other distributions like Fedora and Arch.

So I'd like to update the Wine wiki pages that describe how to build 
Wine to reference this tool [1] since I think it's really the easiest 
way to set things up the 32- and 64-bit build dependencies.

But before I do that I wonder if the tool should be moved to another Git 
repository. Currently it's in my wt-daily repository but that may not be 
the most appropriate place. The three candidate are:

* wt-daily
  That's where I initially put it since that was easiest and I use 
  wt-install-dev to configure the machines for my daily WineTest runs. 
  But wt-daily is not really a mainstream repository.

* tools
  I also use wt-install-dev to configure the TestBot VMs that run the 
  Wine tests. So since the TestBot source is stored in the tools 
  repository it could make sense to add wt-install-dev there.

* wine
  After all the goal is to help set up a system to compile Wine so that 
  may be the most logical place for it. Then anyone wanting to compile 
  Wine would immediately have access to this tool without having to go 
  fetch some other repository. It could even be referenced in the 
  README.

Of course I'm also open to renaming wt-install-dev.

Any thoughts?


[1] https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine#Cross-Compiling
    https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Biarch_Wine_On_Ubuntu
    https://wiki.winehq.org/OpenSUSE#Build_Tools_and_Dependencies


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