Hi List, # Executive Summary
Over the past years I have been maintaining the wine-fbsd64 port (see http://mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64 for more). The port itself effectively does static linking (it bundles all the libraries wine needs) with scripts to bootstrap the environment to easily use wine from FreeBSD/amd64. There is also a script to install the i386 nVidia graphic drivers so that wine has access to nVidia accelerated graphics from FreeBSD/amd64. I would like to propose this port gets included in the port's collection and would like to get feedback, your comments please :-). P.S. I'm not subscribed to the list, so please ensure I'm cc'ed in the discussion. # Details of the Port Please see attached for the actual port. ## Port Preamble This port is a slave port to emulators/wine(-devel). The master port needed to be modified (already done): - to conditionally set USE_LDCONFIG (if USE_LDCONFIG32 was not set) - to allow the library directory to be changed (see WINELIBDIR) - to allow configure arguments to be appended ## Port Targets The port itself does the following in the preamble: - specifies the pkg(de)install script to handle nVidia driver patching - overrides ACTUAL-PACKAGE-DEPENDS (all depends are bundled with the port) - defined the library directory to ${PREFIX}/lib32 - defined the binary directory to ${PREFIX}/bin32 - patches the PLIST to refer to lib32 (not lib) - defined USE_LDCONFIG32 appropriately The post-install-script target: - Installs the files/binbounce file in ${PREFIX}/bin for each ${PREFIX}/bin32 file (hard linked) - Finds all linked library, copies them to ${PREFIX}/lib32, and added them to the plist - Finds all dlopen'ed libraries, copies them to ${PREFIX}/lib32, and added them to the plist - Installs the nVidia patch file - Run the (PRE-|POST-)INSTALL script The post-package-script (run only if WITH_PKGNG is defined): - Amends the package so the arch label to 64bit ## Port scripts (in files/) The binbounce file does the following to transparently fix the environment to allow seamless running of the wine programs: - determines the location of the TARGET (follows symbolic links to itself) - fixes LD_LIBRARY_PATH if in an i386 environment (so lib32, lib32/wine is found) - fixes LD_32_LIBRARY_PATH if in an amd64 environment (so lib32, lib32/wine, /usr/lib32) - fixes PATH (so bin32 is found) - passes execution to the counterpart in bin32 The patch-nvidia.sh file does the following: - Downloads the nVidia distfile for i386 (iff nVidia amd64 driver is installed) - Installs the required libraries into ${PREFIX}/lib32 - When run from the install script it does _not_ download the distfile, only installs the libraries iff the distfiles are already downloaded. # Shortcomings of the port The following are shortcomings that I am aware of: - Can only be compiled in an i386 environment, but the resulting package is *intended* for amd64 (although works fine in an i386 environment) - If, somehow, there is a recursive calling of wine programs then LD_(32_)LIBRARY_PATH and PATH will continue to grow with every iteration. - The pkgng ports cannot be installed in an i386 environment as they are labelled for amd64. # Testing The ports published on mediafire have been tested by many users. The port itself works flawlessly however there have been some reports about some flaws in the 32-bit compatibility layer of the kernel (although I cannot remember the specifics now). To produce the package on an amd64 system do the following: # (cd /usr/ports/emulators/; patch -p0 < /path/to/diff) # make -C /usr/src world DESTDIR=/i386 TARGET=i386 # mount -t devfs devfs /i386/dev # mkdir /i386/usr/ports # mount -t nullfs /usr/ports /i386/usr/ports # chroot make -C /usr/ports/emulators/wine-fbsd64 package WITH_PKGNG=yes The package wine-fbsd64-1.5.16,1.txz (in pkgng format) will be available from /usr/ports/packages/All/ # Conclusion "It is based completely off the main port and uses the hack to, effectively, use static linking (or bundling of libraries). In a sense it is a complete, yet quite stable and encompassing, hack. " - David ;-) Regards,
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