Hi,
Well for PCLinuxOS I'm actually going to do what Dan Kegel has already done for
Ubuntu. I'm building a script that will automagically install all the necessary
development libraries... I may even have it automagically configure, compile and
install Wine as well.
-Zac
Island wrote:
If this is what you're interested in, I would be willing to detail that process
by installing and building wine myself and then writing a howto for it.
...
-Zac
Zac, I'd be interested in that, too. I think lots of people would be. Are you thinking of building, and a Howto, for Stephen and PCLinuxOS? Or is building from source more or less the same for every distribution?
I use Debian Etch, but more or less in the same position as Stephen. I looked at the Wine page talking about building from source, but was put off by the number of separate things that it talked about checking first - and, as he says, didn't really know what I might be looking at.
I'd certainly like to try rc4 - I've hit problems running Office 97 with VBA under 0.9.58, and even with rc2 - but rc2 is the latest Debian build I've been able to find. ('Ovek' built that and posted it on his website).
Echoing what Stephen already said, I think your offer is really helpful, and I'd like to try your Howto for PCLinuxOS and see how far I can get on Debian with it. I'll certainly post back some experience.
regards, Island
