[Wine] Running text app without X

[Steven Hein]

I could also just force the DISPLAY to an bogus hostname
and deal with the errors....right?   (becuase the app runs just fine).

I'd really love to have a wine environment that was tailored just
to run this set of command-line-only apps.....is there a way to build
a stripped-down wine environment that only only runs command-line
applications?   (Does not involve X at all)?

Andri Carvalho wrote:

> There is an easy solution for this, just use Xvfb, that is just a 
> dummy virtual X server.
>
> If you already have a X server running on :0 you have to use :1, so 
> you issue the following command:
>
> Xvfb -ac :1 &
>
> after that, just set the variable DISPLAY to :1, and execute what you 
> want.
>
> export DISPLAY=:1
> wine c:\\diab\\5.2.1.0\\WIN32\\bin\\dcc -c -o obj/hello.o hello.c
>
> Hope, this helps,
>
> Andri Carvalho
>
> Steven Hein wrote:
>
>> I'm sure this question comes up waaaay to often in this
>> list, and I apologize if I've missed the obvious answer.
>> I did spend the last two hours looking for a solution
>> and trying various things, but to no avail.
>>
>> I'm trying to run a command-line app (text-only).  It's a
>> cross-compiler tool for which we only have Windows binaries.
>> The app works fine, but when I run it (i.e. to compile a
>> test file), I see:
>>
>> $ wine c:\\diab\\5.2.1.0\\WIN32\\bin\\dcc -c -o obj/hello.o hello.c
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>>
>> Looked to me like this was trying to do something in X
>> (even though the app produces NO graphical output),
>> so I tried overriding the DISPLAY variable to an invalid
>> display:
>>
>> $ WINEPREFIX=/work/diab DISPLAY=qqq:0.0 
>> c:\\diab\\5.2.1.0\\WIN32\\bin\\dcc -c -o obj/hello.o hello.c
>> _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for qqq:6000: Name or 
>> service not known
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for qqq:6000: Name or 
>> service not known
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
>>
>> So it's definitely trying to connect to an X server.
>>
>> Should I expect this?   If so, is there any way to not do this?
>> This is a compiler, so speed of execution is important (the
>> resulting app has several hundred files!).   I'd like to
>> eliminate any extra overhead if possible.
>> (I know, if performance is a problem then don't use an
>> emulated environment.....but the wine solution would save
>> us the $3000 required to update our compiler to a newer
>> version with Linux support......).
>>
>> I tried configuring the HKCU\Software\Wine\Drivers
>> "Graphics"="null", and other settings which didn't seem
>> to have any effect.   I saw references to the "nulldriver"
>> graphics driver, but couldn't see how to configure this
>> (and didn't even know if it would change what I am seeing!).
>>
>> Any help/hints would be appreciated....
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>
>>


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