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10 June 2013

444.Building Wine 1.6-rc1 on Debian Wheezy using a chroot

Here's a generic way of building wine which works for 1.6-rc1 (and 1.5.28 and everything in between except 1.5.30).

The build instructions are recycled from my 1.5-series instructions -- the 1.5 series is the development version and Wine 1.6 is the new stable release, and so Wine 1.5.31 and 1.6-rc1 should be pretty similar. As a release candidate (rc) 1.6-rc1 isn't meant for production work. For that, use Wine 1.4 which is the current stable series.


Here's a link to the release announcement: http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.6-rc1

See here for information about 3D acceleration using libGL/U with Wine: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/429-briefly-wine-libglliubglu-blender.html

Getting started:
If you set up a e.g. chroot to build 1.5.28 or  before or 1.5.31 (1.5.30 had a bug which needed patching), you don't need to set up a new chroot to build 1.6-rc1. In that case, skip the set-up step below and instead re-enter your existing chroot like this:
sudo mount -o bind /proc wine32/proc
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf wine32/etc/resolv.conf
sudo chroot wine32
su sandbox
cd ~/tmp

And skip to 'Building wine'.

Otherwise do this:
Setting up the Chroot
sudo apt-get install debootstrap
mkdir $HOME/tmp/architectures/wine32 -p
cd $HOME/tmp/architectures
sudo debootstrap --arch i386 wheezy $HOME/tmp/architectures/wine32 http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/
sudo mount -o bind /proc wine32/proc
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf wine32/etc/resolv.conf
sudo chroot wine32

You're now in the chroot:
apt-get update
apt-get install locales sudo vim
echo 'export LC_ALL="C"'>>/etc/bash.bashrc
echo 'export LANG="C"'>>/etc/bash.bashrc
echo '127.0.0.1 localhost beryllium' >> /etc/hosts
source /etc/bash.bashrc
adduser sandbox
usermod -g sudo sandbox
echo 'Defaults !tty_tickets' >> /etc/sudoers
su sandbox
cd ~/

Replace 'beryllium' with the name your host system (it's just to suppress error messages)

Building Wine
While still in the chroot, continue (the i386 is ok; don't worry about it -- you don't actually need it):

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev:i386 libfreetype6-dev:i386 libxcursor-dev:i386 libxi-dev:i386 libxxf86vm-dev:i386 libxrandr-dev:i386 libxinerama-dev:i386 libxcomposite-dev:i386 libglu-dev:i386 libosmesa-dev:i386 libglu-dev:i386 libosmesa-dev:i386 libdbus-1-dev:i386 libgnutls-dev:i386 libncurses-dev:i386 libsane-dev:i386 libv4l-dev:i386 libgphoto2-2-dev:i386 liblcms-dev:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev:i386 libcapi20-dev:i386 libcups2-dev:i386 libfontconfig-dev:i386 libgsm1-dev:i386 libtiff-dev:i386 libpng-dev:i386 libjpeg-dev:i386 libmpg123-dev:i386 libopenal-dev:i386 libldap-dev:i386 libxrender-dev:i386 libxml2-dev:i386 libxslt-dev:i386 libhal-dev:i386 gettext:i386 prelink:i386 bzip2:i386 bison:i386 flex:i386 oss4-dev:i386 checkinstall:i386 ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 opencl-headers:i386 libasound2-dev:i386 build-essential
mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.6-rc1.tar.bz2

tar xvf wine-1.6-rc1.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.6-rc1/
./configure
time make -j3
sudo checkinstall --install=no
checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. The package documentation directory ./doc-pak does not exist. Should I create a default set of package docs? [y]: Preparing package documentation...OK Please write a description for the package. End your description with an empty line or EOF. >> wine 1.6-rc1 >> ***************************************** **** Debian package creation selected *** ***************************************** This package will be built according to these values: 0 - Maintainer: [ root@beryllium ] 1 - Summary: [ wine 1.6-rc1] 2 - Name: [ wine-1.6 ] 3 - Version: [ 1.6-rc1] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ i386 ] 8 - Source location: [ wine-1.6-rc1 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Provides: [ wine-1.6 ] 12 - Conflicts: [ ] 13 - Replaces: [ ]
Checkinstall takes a little while (In particular this step: 'Copying files to the temporary directory...').

Installing Wine

Exit the chroot
sandbox@beryllium:~/tmp/wine-1.6-rc1$ exit
exit
root@beryllium:/# exit
exit
me@beryllium:~/tmp/architectures$ 

On your host system
 Enable multiarch* and install ia32-libs, since you've built a proper 32 bit binary:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

*At some point I think ia32-libs may be replaced by proper multiarch packages, but maybe not. So we're kind of doing both here.

 Copy the .deb package and install it
sudo cp wine32/home/sandbox/tmp/wine-1.6-rc1/wine_1.6-rc1-1_i386.deb .
sudo chown $USER wine_1.6-rc1-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i wine_1.6-rc1-1_i386.deb

6 comments:

  1. Excellent tutorial! I have now successfully installed wine 1.6-rc3 (yeah it works the same as rc1) on my Debian box, and have played some Steam games using it.

    One hint: you can set the requirements field in checkinstall to force ia32-libs as a requirement so that you don't have to manually add it (actually in my case I added the Open GL NVidia library as well, so my depends line is 'libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386,ia32-libs-i386:i386'). Note that depends are not space separated, only a comma, and I found that ia32-libs did not work, but ia32-libs-i386:i386 did; YMMV, as I don't know the reason for the difference. Perhaps it assumes arch=i386 and there is no package called ia32-libs in that arch?

    Cheers

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    1. Thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure about the reason for ia32-libs not work vs ia32-libs-i386:i386, but your suggestion sounds reasonable.

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  2. i got error:

    ======================== Installation successful ==========================
    Copying documentation directory...
    ./
    ./COPYING.LIB
    ./LICENSE
    ./ANNOUNCE
    ./README
    ./AUTHORS
    ./VERSION
    Copying files to the temporary directory...OK
    Stripping ELF binaries and libraries...OK
    Compressing man pages...OK
    Building file list...OK

    Building Debian package... FAILED!
    *** Failed to build the package

    Do you want to see the log file? [y]: n
    Erasing temporary files...OK
    Deleting temp dir...OK


    Now i am looking for solution

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    1. You should hit 'y' when you're asked to see the log file since it will tell you what the problem is.

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    2. I'll bet this was the error the individual above received, as did I.

      dpkg-deb: error: parsing file '/var/tmp/tmp.FGf9SgYpP7/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 7 package 'wine-1.6':
      error in Version string 'rc1-1': version number does not start with digit

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    3. I presume that you've managed to sort it out, but for others it may be helpful with an explanation: make sure to edit field 3 (Version) in the checkinstall dialogue so that it reads e.g. 1.6-rc1 instead of rc1

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