"Tubal-Cain" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My frustration with Debian's out-of-date versions of Wine has > reached the point that I'm willing to push my boundaries a bit and > compile it from source. I've run apt-get build-dep wine-unstable, > but there is still a 'make' error I'm not sure how to fix: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 This sounds as if you may not have the X-windows "development" package(s) installed. > I am using 64-bit Debian unstable. Make sure you build wine in a 32-bit development environment, so as to produce a 32-bit executable. 64-bit wine is almost certainly not what you want.