Wine-Staging Brings Emulated EAX, Better .NET Executables Support

[ihatemichael]

just use fedora, it had wine staging with pa long ago

No. I won't change distro just because of wine.

[ihatemichael]

Here's a question:

Is there a way I can easily grab wine from git and wine-staging and just build wine in my home dir and actually use wine from my home dir WITHOUT installing it?

If so, how?

[geearf]

Here's a question:

Is there a way I can easily grab wine from git and wine-staging and just build wine in my home dir and actually use wine from my home dir WITHOUT installing it?

If so, how?

Sure.
Make without a following make install.

[geearf]

you can apply staging to wine+nine patch without any problems.

Cool!
I am doing this right now, I had to disable dxva2 patches since patching failed, but I don't care so it's ok.
Unfortunately nine is on 1.38 for now, so no EAX :/
(Though I could try to mix and match patches, I'm not going to try for now).

[ihatemichael]

Sure.
Make without a following make install.

Right, but do I have to build for x86? I'm on 64-bit Arch.

Or 64-bit wine will work just fine for running games and other stuff that are 32-bit?

[geearf]

Right, but do I have to build for x86? I'm on 64-bit Arch.

Or 64-bit wine will work just fine for running games and other stuff that are 32-bit?

32b wine is more useful that 64b wine.
Having both is not bad, but I rarely every use the 64b one.

I am not sure why you are not simply using the pipelight repo or taking it from aur though.

[magika]

Here's a question:

Is there a way I can easily grab wine from git and wine-staging and just build wine in my home dir and actually use wine from my home dir WITHOUT installing it?

If so, how?

Same way as every other program:

configure --prefix=/home/user/local
make -j4
make install
export PATH=/home/user/local/bin;$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/user/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Or better get wine-staging from aur.

[MoonMoon]

Its only a mess to use/compile/install depending on your distro... Arch has -staging packages in the AUR, Fedora ships -staging by default, Gentoo probabably has a -staging ebuild laying around.

On Arch, I use the pipelight repository provided by the Wine developers, it offers wine-staging, works fine here.

[geearf]

On Arch, I use the pipelight repository provided by the Wine developers, it offers wine-staging, works fine here.

pipelight is by the wine-staging team not the wine team I believe.

[DebianLinuxero]

Given that Windows hasn't supported hardware acceleration for sound cards since Vista, there's no value in adding hardware support to either Linux or Wine. The number of hardware-accelerated sound cards still in use must be negligible.

Vista didn't have DirectSound3D acceleration, but Creative cards still have hardware accelerated OpenAL compatible with all Windows versions since XP.

And you could obtain accelerated EAX support in Vista throgh Creative Alchemy wrapper : it translates EAX calls to OpenAL.