Hello to all

The title of this thread basically sums up my question.I know that, in terms of kernel support DSL is good, but I am not sure where to start in terms of getting all of the dependancies and tools to compile it.

I'm kind of limited to DSL since I installed it on a virtual machine via QEMU on a Windows machine, and although I could try using Xubuntu...I don't really have the space on the system required to install it so I could use it, nor the ram to just use it for my purposes off a LiveCD. I've compiled wine before on another machine with Ubuntu so I know how to. Also, I need to be able to patch wine...but when I tried it after downloading the source it just said that the patch command was not found.

So, any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

If the patch command was missing, you need to install 'patch' (sorry, I don't know the source).

winehq may be the best place to look at what build tools will be required to build; somewhere there you should also find a list of dependencies. Not all dependencies have to be met - for example, with the sound system, you only need to meet the dependency for whatever sound system you use - there are drivers which make use of raw devices (for alsa and oss - go for alsa if you can; in principle OSS will cease to exist one day) and drivers for sound daemons (esd, jack - huh, seems there's no artsd). You may also leave out dependencies for functions which you don't want - for example, "ldap" would be optional.

May I ask why you aren't using one of the provided DSL extensions to run Wine?

Sorry about the delayed response...I was asking this before my family and me made a move to another state so I've been delayed with that and other things.

However, after asking about compiling wine under DSL I downloaded QEMU when I had time and ran Xubuntu under a virtual drive so I would have space to compile Wine. It worked!

Thanks for helping though. I'll probably be back here with another question soon if I don't figure said issue out myself.

P.S.: I always install support for all sound systems since some programs pose issues with ALSA on rare occassions (for me with my machine, AoE on Wine-1.1.3, I have to use OSS.). I'll keep that in mind next time though.