Questions about wine

Ben Walton bdwalton-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sun Jul 21 07:31:12 UTC 2013


On Jul 21, 2013 6:40 AM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>   I'm looking at getting wine going for a Windows-only app.  I posted
> some questions on the Gentoo forum, but no response.  Is anybody here
> familiar with wine?
>
> 1) The latest Gentoo ebuild wine-1.6_rc4 (unstable) apparently should
> be "prelinked".  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml talks
> about a cron job to run prelink every so often, which seems like the
> wrong approach.  Wouldn't it make more sense to run it right after
> installing a program or doing any updates?  Are there any problems with
> running prelink on all programs?

The trick is that one library links to another and as those change or get
updated the prelinking you did previously is invalidated. Prelinking is at
the executable level so an updated SSL library means that anything which
eventually uses it needs to be re-prelinked.

Hth.

Thanks
-Ben
>
> 2) I'm hazy about some of wine's options...  are "opencl" and "opengl"
> and "osmesa" recommended?  My onboard video chip (according to lspci) is
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd
> Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
>
> 3) LINGUAS supports both "en" and "en_US".  Is it recommended to enable
> both?
>
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