OK... I D/Led the complete WineX CVS Source from their sourceforge page... I put the dir 'wine' on my desktop so the path to it was /home/daniel/Desktop/wine' I'm running RH9 so I terminal in with a root terminal and type ./tools/wineinstall into the shell like the readme told me to... anyhow... It gets done and I think it tried to run wine or something but it told me that /root/.wine/winsomethingorother-IT was not a valid dir... so I did a mkdir and made the dir and It told me that It needed to be setup so that no other users could access it... I did chmod 600 on it and then it told me that /root/.wine/[funkydir]/socket was not a valid dir... so I made that and I tells me that it is not a socket... I tried doing a make uninstall moving the wine dir to /home/daniel/wine and doing a make install again but I just get the same old CRAP again... HELP!

Thats EXACTLY the same i did, and i still get the same error msg!! Please help us out!!

Thx, zaubara

Guys...use the search, this exact problem has been solved 3-4 times in the last week already.

The search feature is your friend

and google.com is your friend

Not that helpful, actually
I did search, I read of LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 and always-delete-that-funnyname-folder ... mhm
Do you all use an existing partition?! It doesnt work on anything for me without ... (and where have i left my WinME CD...)

Okey Dokey... You claim that this prob has been solved 3-4 times in the past week already... WELL this post has been here longer than just this past week... Oh, and BTW... I did look... but none of the other posts seemed to help much... But if you're not gonna help then I'll just keep looking... JERK

To compile WineX CVS:

1) download
2) change dir to it and do not use the wineinstall script! do it the old fashioned way:
-./configure (recommended type ./configure --help to see what options you can change, --enable-opengl MUST be typed in!)
-make depend && make (you can do two steps in one with this command).
-su (your root's pw) and make install && ldconfig. At this point the software is installed, BUT you have still to configure it! go to the documantation/samples subdirectory under the wine tree and find the file for configuration, copy it to your home's ~/.wine dir (you have to create it) and place the file there. At this point you may edit the config file to reflect your taste regarding where do you want the windows tree located as well as some other stuff as your CD's, etc.
-You also have to give WineX a registry template to do so go to the programs/regapi directory under the WineX source tree and run the regapi program ./regapi /where-the-sourcetree-is/winedefault.reg to build the windows registry.

3) add to your .bashrc file an entry so the wineserver program (/usr/local/bin/wineserver) is loaded at startup of your session and avoid getting an annoying error regarding it.

Notes:
1.- As of WineX 3 you may not need to build the registry.
2.- Depending on the flags you enabled/disabled during configuration, you will get or not 3D accel. A recommendation would be to experiment by yourselves to see what best suits your systems.
3.- Remember that you won't get any installshield support in the CVS releases of WineX.

Currently I am able to run some games: Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island, Starcraft, Warcarft 2 BNE, etc. BUT I won't get 3D accel (due config procedure?). Anyway they run, do not expect hyper performance from them!

An advice to get reading off your CD devices:

In order to get your CD devices read correctly a certain game CD (Starcraft for instance) you will need to add the following line to your config file in your ~./wine directory:

[Drive XXX]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "cdrom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom" <-- Without this line you will not be able to read off the game's CDs. If you use the kernel hack hd**=ide-scsi you will have to point that to the IDE identifier, i.e hd** instead of the symlinc cdrom*

Cheers, and I hope you can use your new WineX

Thetargos.

Thanx Thetargos for ur help on setting up winex....
However i'm not sure how to configure the .bashrc file that u mentioned....is this step necessary?

Also, i received an error message when i typed "wine":
wine: error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any solution?
Thanx

Hi sorry about my last post....realised that many pple have already asked this question.

I found a website regarding on solving this problem but i dun really quite understand it...

http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine...1/12/0071.html

Could somebody enlighten me on wat is the "lib config" file? thanx...

You must specify where will winex be installed you can do that with the --prefix=/usr/lib (/usr/local/lib, /opt/lib, /lib, etc) option of ./configure also you can make sure that after install you run ldconfig, but you would have to add to the file ld.so.conf in /etc the */lib directory in which it was installed.
Hope this helps!

When i ran "ldconfig" it said "bash: ldconfig: command not found". When I ran "regapi" after that, it says "wine: chdir to /home/inureye/.wine/wineserver-localhost.localdomain : No such file or directory". I'm sure that problem probably has to do with ldconfig. When can I get ldconfig? I'm running RedHat Linux 9.

To run ldconfig (even if you are root via sudo) you must give the full path to the command, it is located at /sbin/ldconfig, try running it like that. Also, since you run RH9 did you configure with pthreads? if not, do so. You get that winesever error, because the service is not running. Just run wineserver at the promt and the error will desappear. You may even add the the command to the .bashrc of your home for the wineserver to execute on login, so you could use any wine-related program without it complaining.
Just add to the end of .bashrc:

exec wineserver

Do I need to have windows installed? I tried to open a program with the wine command and it said "err:font:ReadFontDir Can't open directory "/root/.transgaming/c_drive/windows/Fonts". Also, when I did "./regapi /home/inureye/wine/winedefault.reg" it said "/home/inureye/wine/winedefault.reg" is not supported."

i found this and couldn't be happier... its a script for getting winex via cvs using redhat 9:

http://ting.homeunix.org/cvs_wine/GetCVSWineX_Pthreads

there's some other things on the guy's web page:

http://ting.homeunix.org/cvs_wine/GetWineX.html

hope it helps you as much as it helped me!

Mike

winex isn't detecting the libs on my computer. When i type wine into the terminal, i'm getting "wine: error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" That lib is in the usr/local/lib directory. Do i need to add that directory to a config file somewhere? I'm using Red Had 9.

Did you run ldconfig?