[Wine] Compiling wine for Debian?

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sat Dec 25 03:03:41 CST 2010


"Tubal-Cain" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> My frustration with Debian's out-of-date versions of Wine has
> reached the point that I'm willing to push my boundaries a bit and
> compile it from source. I've run apt-get build-dep wine-unstable,
> but there is still a 'make' error I'm not sure how to fix:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11

This sounds as if you may not have the X-windows "development"
package(s) installed.

> I am using 64-bit Debian unstable.

Make sure you build wine in a 32-bit development environment, so as
to produce a 32-bit executable.  64-bit wine is almost certainly not
what you want.



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