wine with mingw for Blizzard games
by TommyC7 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5PPGZ)
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone here plays some of the older Blizzard games via wine.
For me I'm specifically referring to Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and Starcraft I: Brood War (if anyone still plays those).
A reddit thread listed this bug report from winehq: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42741
This bug report on winehq: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45349 also details a similar issue and states that wine will be need to be (re-)compiled with mingw support.
So I was curious about 3 things: ==========================
1. Have any of you built mingw (let's take wine out of the equation for the moment), and if so, does it require a separate binutils, mpfr, gmp, etc. just for itself, or can it use the system's respective packages/binaries?
2. If mingw isn't necessary to run these programs, what changes were made to get it to work on your system?
3. If you were able to get those programs running on a different Linux distribution, is the wine package in that distribution compiled with mingw support because it seems like most of the posts with fixes from other distributions seem to change either an environment variable or the wine version but don't detail how wine was compiled on their system.
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P.S.: I have tried setting the Windows version to Windows 2003 as another reddit thread stated, that change did not work.
P.P.S.: Some of the "fixes" in the bug report use some environment variables and I have tried with those as well, they also did not work.
I was wondering if anyone here plays some of the older Blizzard games via wine.
For me I'm specifically referring to Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and Starcraft I: Brood War (if anyone still plays those).
A reddit thread listed this bug report from winehq: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42741
This bug report on winehq: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45349 also details a similar issue and states that wine will be need to be (re-)compiled with mingw support.
So I was curious about 3 things: ==========================
1. Have any of you built mingw (let's take wine out of the equation for the moment), and if so, does it require a separate binutils, mpfr, gmp, etc. just for itself, or can it use the system's respective packages/binaries?
2. If mingw isn't necessary to run these programs, what changes were made to get it to work on your system?
3. If you were able to get those programs running on a different Linux distribution, is the wine package in that distribution compiled with mingw support because it seems like most of the posts with fixes from other distributions seem to change either an environment variable or the wine version but don't detail how wine was compiled on their system.
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P.S.: I have tried setting the Windows version to Windows 2003 as another reddit thread stated, that change did not work.
P.P.S.: Some of the "fixes" in the bug report use some environment variables and I have tried with those as well, they also did not work.