avlinux wine build options ?

[davephillips]

Greetings,

The repo version of Wine is old (1.3), and I'd like to replace it with the latest 1.5, my own build. However, since the package is indicated special to AVLinux I wondered what build options you guys used. I can compile Wine without problems, btw, I just want to use the same options as the AVLinux build.

TIA,

dp

[GMaq]

Hi Dave,

I always build wine with this:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-tests --enable-maintainer-mode

AV Linux has all the dependencies pre-installed however newer versions of Wine will warn that OSS and 'OpenCL' (not the important 'OpenGL') headers are missing, OSS is obviously not important and there are no OpenCL header in Debian Squeeze that I know of and Wine for the purposes of AV Linux doesn't require OpenCL anyway.

I have an updated Wine 1.4 with -rt patching here: http://bandshed.net/custom/wine_1.4+rtavlinux-1_i386.deb

I haven't tried or tested 1.5 yet nor do I know if the -rt patch will work with it. If you find 1.5 gives better or more reliable support please let me know.

[davephillips]

I always build wine with this:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-tests --enable-maintainer-mode

Thanks G ! No problems here with the build/install.

I have an updated Wine 1.4 with -rt patching here: http://bandshed.net/custom/wine_1.4+rtavlinux-1_i386.deb

I haven't tried or tested 1.5 yet nor do I know if the -rt patch will work with it. If you find 1.5 gives better or more reliable support please let me know.

Well, so far so good, but I'm just testing VST/VSTi plugins with the various Linux support utilities (festige, vsthost, fsthost). I might try a build of ArdourVST too, haven't done that for a while.

Does the rt patch work with 1.5.x ? And when/why did Wine drop JACK support ?

Best,

dp

[GMaq]

Hi,

Wine removed JACK support after 1.3.24 I'm not sure why although if you just use stuff like ArdourVST, Festige, Reaper etc. it's not too big of a hardship. AV Linux 6.0 will use an ALSA loop daemon (shared with me by falkTX) so ALL ALSA apps including Wine will just work with JACK running making Pulseaudio and JACK support in Wine unnecessary. I'm still testing it but it seems to be working really well so far.

[davephillips]

Wine removed JACK support after 1.3.24 I'm not sure why although if you just use stuff like ArdourVST, Festige, Reaper etc. it's not too big of a hardship. AV Linux 6.0 will use an ALSA loop daemon (shared with me by falkTX) so ALL ALSA apps including Wine will just work with JACK running making Pulseaudio and JACK support in Wine unnecessary. I'm still testing it but it seems to be working really well so far.

Thanks, G, I appreciate the info. Specifically, I'm trying to get a VSTi working, it's the TX16Wx plugin. Earlier versions of Wine failed to draw the GUI, but 1.5 gets it up & sort of running. Fonts don't display and controls are unresponsive, so obviously there's a way to go before this one works in Linux. Anyway, that's why I'm working on all this Wine foolery.

Best,

dp