429. Briefly: Wine, libGL/liubGLU, Blender and nvidia -- 3D acceleration under Wine

The short version:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

The longer version:
I looked into the possibility of running Blender for 32 bit windows under wine due to a series of comments to a post: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/416-wine-1530-in-chroot.html?showComment=1369252731918#c3560166574961895965

On this particular system I have a Geforce 430. It's running Debian Wheezy 64 bit, and has 32 bit wine 1.5.30 compiled as shown in this post: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/416-wine-1530-in-chroot.html

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False start
First I downloaded and installed Blender. Running it using

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Blender\ Foundation/Blender/blender.exe

led to

err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {24e669e1-e90f-4595-a012-b0fd3ccc5c5a} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {24e669e1-e90f-4595-a012-b0fd3ccc5c5a} could be created for context 0x1
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"GLU32.dll": libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:module:import_dll Loading library GLU32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\blender.exe") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\blender.exe" failed, status c0000135

Using locate I found something that sounded right-ish

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1 /lib32/libGLU.so.1

Tried again:

wine: Call from 0x7b83c562 to unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoAssignResources, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoAssignResources called at address 0x7b83c562 (thread 003c), starting debugger...
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"GLU32.dll": libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:module:import_dll Loading library GLU32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\blender.exe") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\blender.exe" failed, status c0000135

And more

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 /lib32/libGL.so.1

And tried again

wine: Call from 0x7b83c562 to unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoAssignResources, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoAssignResources called at address 0x7b83c562 (thread 003c), starting debugger...
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"GLU32.dll": libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:module:import_dll Loading library GLU32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\blender.exe") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\blender.exe" failed, status c0000135

OK, so /lib32 isn't in the ld path:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/lib32

And tried again.

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:254:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
err:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering is disabled, most likely your OpenGL drivers haven't been installed correctly (using GL renderer "GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2", version "1.4 (2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.88)").
Writing: /tmp/\blender.crash.txt

Fine. Back to the drawing board.

(Btw, libasound2-plugins:i386 would lead to broken packages re the libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so message.)

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Solution:

aptitude show libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32

Package: libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32          
New: yes
[..]
Replaces: nvidia-glx-ia32 (< 195.36.31), nvidia-glx-ia32 (< 195.36.31)
Description: please switch to multiarch libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

Half the time these things break when installing the i386 packages, but sure, let's try:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libgl1-nvidia-alternatives-ia32
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
Recommended packages:
  libxvmcnvidia1:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

Try again:

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Blender\ Foundation/Blender/blender.exe

It works!

Note that this means that you can run Facio 17.1.1 on Wine as well (it's an unofficial GUI for e.g. GAMESS US/WinGAMESS, Firefly, etc.)