[plug] Wine and patches

[Leon Brooks]

Dennis Plester wrote:

> After recent discussions regarding Half-Life and the like in Linux, I
> attempted to get one of the more recent wine releases, and apply the
> transgaming patch. The transgaming site has patches for wine via CVS and as
> a diff file to be applied to the 20010112 wine source snapshot. As I know
> very little about CVS, and my Linux box does not presently have a direct
> connection to the 'net, I downloaded the 20010112 snapshot from winehq, the
> patch diff file from transgaming.com and transferred them across to my
> machine. (Running Mandrake 7.2)

> When I attempted to apply the patch, using patch <../patch.diff (my best
> guess at the appropriate syntax), it would patch 3 files before getting
> stuck because it couldn't find a particular file. I tried the man patch
> thing, but it didn't offer me much help. I ran out of time, so I didn't
> proceed further, but I suspect that if I look at the wine source directory
> structure a little closer, I will probably be able to find the file in
> question. In the meantime though, has someone else out there got the patches
> up and running, and if so, how did you go about it?

I'm in the throes of trying that (also on Mdk 7.2) so my 
hugs-and-kisses/trouble-and-strife can play DK games. Amongst other 
things, there are *two* patches that must be applied, in order - which 
is probably why patch gronked. The first patch has apparently already 
been committed to winehq.com for later WINE snapshots.

> An rpm package that had all the patches rolled in would be nice, but I
> couldn't find one that clearly stated their inclusion with OpenGL support
> enabled, which is a must have for a first person shooter like myself.

When the DirectX dust settles a bit, these will happen more often.

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