Use Native System Wine as Compatibility Tool In Steam

gekret005 · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2023 Posts: 11

I'd like to use the native versions of wine/proton on my system rather than utilizing the builds of proton Valve ships. Does anyone have a method of achieving this?

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:15 pm Post subject:

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Maybe installing app-emulation/wine-vanilla or app-emulation/wine-proton?
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gekret005 · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2023 Posts: 11

Thanks, but I guess I need to be more specific, I have versions of wine on my system already and I can run games outside of steam, but this doesn't let me run games that require the steam client without running the steam client a second time in wine, or need EAC garbage to startup. What I'm asking is if there's a good method to add a compatibility tool to steam like proton-GE-custom, but instead of a packed build of wine it just goes to the main system wine at /usr/bin/wine.

Ralphred · Guru Joined: 31 Dec 2013 Posts: 503

Whilst wine is at the core of proton, there is a lot wrapped around it.
My suggestion would be to install a GloriousEggroll instance in compatibilitytools.d, then do a quick and dirty hack by dropping the wine binaries you want to use in this instance over the top, or (preferably) try and do it properly by making the contents of the /files/bin /files/lib and /files/lib64 symlinks to native files.

It's an interesting concept that it's possible to create a Proton-gentoo-native by wrapping GE's protonfixes and proton around a native gentoo wine, but GE does such good work at staying on the top of the wave that it feels like a lot of work for not much return.

gekret005 · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2023 Posts: 11

I looked into symlinking and whatnot but it would be such a dirty mess as it's all packaged different and I'm not even certain it's going to work. I guess at some point I could see about porting over this pkgbuild to an ebuild https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=proton-ge-custom so that I could compile it against my own system's libraries, but I guess using the same version of wine for both steam and outside of steam are out of the question as I couldn't find anything about it.