My take on WINE is a bit different from Richard Gaskin's . . .
I 100% agree with his: "Build native apps for Linux and enjoy better
performance and a simpler experience."
and with his:
"If it's for testing Windows compatibility, the emulation won't tell you
nearly as much as running a full Windows system in a VM."
HOWEVER, IFF (If and Only If) you end up with a LiveCode Windows
standalone in your hands which you HAVE to run and you
have no access either to a box or a VM running Windows then run it with
WINE.
I have NEVER had a system conflict with WINE, however the fact that in
the last 2 years the WINE menu system has vanished, so to
get at the settings one has to fiddle around with the terminal, makes it
a ridiculous time-waster if there are any other options
available to you.
I have a small 32-bit and a small 64-bit pair of computers set up in a
"murky corner" of my study with Windows on them
(my bank had some spare licences they gave me because I did some data
retrieval for them when they got "popped" by
some ransomware a while ago). As I don't like Windows I use them only
for testing standalones. As the actual computers
cost me $25 each . . .
Creating and using LiveCode Windows applications to run under WINE
instead of going directly for a Linux build is
daft when LiveCode standalones built for Linux generally run just as
well without the expectation that one's end-users
are to have WINE installed.
Oh, and if you don't find running LiveCode standalones built for Windows
with WINE exotic enough try running them with
ReactOS (http://www.reactos.org/), but remember to whip round to the
local apothecary for a large jar of headache pills first.
Richmond.
On 10/26/17 3:40 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Alejandro Tejada wrote:
> Recently, I was running a few LiveCode Windows applications in Ubuntu
> (using Wine) and found that all of them run really well.
>
> Do you have some advice and caveats for creating and using LiveCode
> Windows applications that runs fine under Wine in Ubuntu or any other
> Linux distribution?
Only this: don't. :)
Build native apps for Linux and enjoy better performance and a simpler
experience.
It's been a few years since I used WINE, and it may well be that my
experience with it back then bears no resemblance to how it runs
today. But it felt very much a workaround, and the range of component
it added to my system eventually created a conflict with something else.
WINE helped make me a big fan of VirtualBox. :)
If it's for testing Windows compatibility, the emulation won't tell
you nearly as much as running a full Windows system in a VM.
And if all you want is to run a LiveCode app, a Linux-native build is
just one click away....
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