I'm probably the last one to cop on, or else I've missed something, but here goes.

I've noticed that Alien's Wine build is still 8.6, not updated for over a year, and that requires Multilib. Multilib was updated more recently, April 2024 in fact.

And slackbuilds.org has a Slackbuild for 9.0, dispensing with the need for Multilib to run 32bit programs. Can I take it that 8.6 is the last version from Alien, and that compat32 will only be needed for cross compiling or others running x86 compiled binaries?

I can't answer your primary question, but I just wanted to mention that the latest Wine release, 9.8, is working fine with the 9.0 Slackbuild with the obligatory version change in the .Slackbuild file.

BK

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Thanks for the reply.

I've been reading the small print and it appears I can dispense with Multilib. The extra gotcha is that in the (still unlikely) event of your running 64bit apps in wine, you have to change the $WINEPREFIX, e.g.

The SlackBuild crashed out with an error about That goes on to cause a consequent error, and then a syntax error over back-ticks pasting it into a file. So it's wrapping up and prettifying things, but it still pukes. /tmp/wine/wine.svg is there, and readable, but it's only 40 bytes .

I saw your comments on wine-9.8. I hardly need the latest stuff. My program is compiled i586 and is compatible with the i386 one we had all been using before that. Many of the guys using this are using other people's junk pcs, some ancient printer & slow internet just to get this one site and the regular updates. I have equipped more than one guy myself in former years.

A while ago I successfully built the latest stable wine release (9.0) using AlienBob's buildscript. Took an hour or so, but it runs OK, no errors during compiling.

I am using a slightly modified version of Alien Bob's script and it builds Wine-9.8 just fine.

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Well, easy fix. I exploded the Slackbuild again, and wine.svg was 6KB instead of 40 bytes So I went over to winehq.org since everything seems to be going swimmingly well with wine-9.8, and they now have a Slackware .txz available from the download page. Why compile when you have a verified one?

I haven't set it a very high bar, but it works fine for me. My 'Ancient-of-Days' Library sits up happily, and what more can I ask?

Have you guys removed Multilib? I ask, because I upgraded wine-8.6 with wine-9.8 and saw this so the wine-9.8 package seems to supply /usr/bin/wine without the requisite 32bit /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (-->/lib/ld-2.39.so) which is part of the multilib glibc.

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