WineX Compile questions

seaweed · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 53 Location: NJ, USA

Some more Wine related questions.

I noticed in another thread someone stating that after compiling wineX from the cvs source and running the command:

'wine -v' the output was 'WineX 2.0'

However my output was "wine xxxxxxx" where xxxxxxx was some datestamp.

Did I do something wrong? Maybe I missed a step. I installed it by running '.tools/wineinstall'

I have since removed it and am going to try again. This time I want to compile it myself. I looked at the configure option but am unsure of what to use. Mainly im concerned with --enable-opengl and wondering if there are any other options that I should use.

Thanks.

Guest · Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 4:02 am Post subject:

i think your talking about wine not winex...they are different and i think that you need wine installed to install winex and have it run correctly.....though i cant wear to it...it was just a blurb i read in some revue on winex

TheWart · Posted: Fri May 17, 2002 2:07 am Post subject:

Actually, I am pretty sure you do not have to have Wine installed to run WineX. I might be wrong, but I was under the influence that they were two seperate things altogether.
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

EHobaX · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 25 Location: DC

I've used WineX, and you don't need Wine installed to run. It sets up all it's own config files in a separate directory independent of Wine. It's pretty good, too!

seaweed · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 53 Location: NJ, USA

Well this makes life a little simpler. emerge winex

TheWart · Posted: Sat May 18, 2002 3:11 am Post subject:

What is the difference between gentoo's ebuild of wineX and the version you pay for? Are you really only paying for the voting/support features ont heri website?
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

EhobaX · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 25 Location: DC

I believe w/ the emerge WineX you don't get the safe-disc or secure disk features, IIRC. WineX now has a .tgz format of the 2.0 build, so it's easy to install on Gentoo. Did it last night.

Now, if my CD rom would stop slowing down my system.

Curious · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 4:50 am Post subject: Re: Difference

TheWart · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 10:17 pm Post subject:

Hmm, signing up is very tempting
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

blk_jack · Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 6:57 am Post subject: Bleh, WineX

I have the commercial version... and my suggestion is NOT to sign up until they at LEAST have DirectX 8.1 support included. Right now it runs pretty much any game based on the q3 engine (wolfenstein, jedi knight ii, soldier of fortune ii) and max payne (though I haven't tried that). However it does NOT run Grand Theft Auto 3, Freedom Force, THPS3, etc. They claim to run all kinds of games, blah blah WineX is so great, but in reality it runs very few games and most run better in Windows anyway.

Infact yesterday I partitioned my harddrive, broken down, and installed Windows XP for the sole purpose of playing GTA3. So again, search for games you have & want to play with it BEFORE you buy .. because chances are WineX won't run it.

seaweed · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 53 Location: NJ, USA

I noticed a couple people posting messages about running quake and rtcw under wine. Just wanted to mention to anyone who might not be aware. Quake3 and RTCW have very good native linux suport.

The linux binaries can be found on the idsoftware ftp.

A good setup guide for both of these products can be found here.
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/

Enjoy.

Swishy · Guru Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ

Ive signed up with winex and found for the money involved you cant complain ...earlier confusion on the post may have been the fact if you download winex from cvs it compiles and installs indentical to wine....but with directx support....whereas ifyou install the rpm.tgz etc it installs to a Transgaming dir. and remember the more that people signup the quicker the development will be.......
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delta407 · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 11:34 pm Post subject:

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