[Wine] Noob trying to ./configure Wine source, config.log error

[James McKenzie]

gnivler wrote:
> I've been searching here and at the ubuntu forums and can't seem to find a solution, I think it's pretty simple though.  I've checked for libc6 and libc6-dev and they both appear to be installed, IIRC they fixed a previous ./configure issue I had with some other source.
>
> mason at mason-desktop:~/Desktop/wine-1.0-rc1$ ./configure
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for gcc... gcc -m32
> checking for C compiler default output file name... 
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> All I'm really trying to do it compile the dinput_test file from dlls/dinput/test and I am not very experienced at compiling, likely missed something basic.  What I concluded is that I need to configure from the root of the source before I'll be able to compile the dinput_test, which may be a bad conclusion :)
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> This is the top of the config.log:
>
> Thanks in advance for any info, sorry if I left something important out.
>
>
> Code:
> ## --------- ##
> ## Platform. ##
> ## --------- ##
>
> hostname = mason-desktop
> uname -m = x86_64
> uname -r = 2.6.24-16-generic
> uname -s = Linux
> uname -v = #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008
>
> /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
> /bin/uname -X     = unknown
>
> /bin/arch              = unknown
> /usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
> /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
> /usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
> /bin/machine           = unknown
> /usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
> /bin/universe          = unknown
>
> PATH: /usr/local/sbin
> PATH: /usr/local/bin
> PATH: /usr/sbin
> PATH: /usr/bin
> PATH: /sbin
> PATH: /bin
> PATH: /usr/games
>
>
> ## ----------- ##
> ## Core tests. ##
> ## ----------- ##
>
> configure:2121: checking build system type
> configure:2139: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> configure:2161: checking host system type
> configure:2176: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> configure:2242: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
> configure:2263: result: yes
> configure:2320: checking for gcc
> configure:2347: result: gcc -m32
> configure:2585: checking for C compiler version
> configure:2592: gcc -m32 --version >&5
> gcc (GCC) 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)
>   
You need to install 32 bit libraries in order to build Wine.  This is 
discussed in the building Wine on 64 bit Linux instructions in the 
Developer documentation.

James McKenzie