SilentOtto
06-12-12, 02:57 PM
I don't know if many will be interested in this, but since I want to enjoy my feeling of achievement, I'll share this info here. There is a thread going on but I noticed it is in the MODs subforum so I'm posting here too for easier finding.
So, I finally have gotten SH5 working under linux! (xubuntu 12.04 in my case).
Basically I had to do what I said above:
1) Download wine source (I used latest 1.5.6 from sourceforge) here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/wine-1.5.6.tar.bz2/download
2) Extract in your docs folder (or wherever) with:
tar -xvfj wine-1.5.6.tar.bz2
Apply patch http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=40106
(save the code as a regular file, in wine source folder (wine-1.5.6) name it for example hack-patch)
patch -Np1 -i hack-patch
3) In order to be able to compile wine, you need a lot of developing libraries you probably won't have in your system. Fortunately, in Ubuntu there is a very easy way to do this, with:
sudo apt-get build-dep wine1.4
(this installs all the needed libs for wine 1.4, it worked perfectly with 1.5 too)
in my system it downloaded about 200Megs of data :doh:
4) verify everything is ok with
./configure
5) if reported ok, you can then
make
6) magic will happen for a few minutes while new wine is compiled.
then the command
sudo make install
will setup your new wine binaries
7) Done!!
PS: Unfortunately in my first test sh5 runs sloooow compared to Sh4. That was to be expected, when the kids go to bed i'll test it a bit more, but I could load one of the historical missions and mess around a bit. Though I didnt go inside since I have no mods installed yet, and I never cared much to learn the new (silly?) sh5 interface! :rotfl2:
Anyway my objective is achieved, I wanted to get the thing working, even if I don't play it! :arrgh!:
So, I finally have gotten SH5 working under linux! (xubuntu 12.04 in my case).
Basically I had to do what I said above:
1) Download wine source (I used latest 1.5.6 from sourceforge) here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/wine-1.5.6.tar.bz2/download
2) Extract in your docs folder (or wherever) with:
tar -xvfj wine-1.5.6.tar.bz2
Apply patch http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=40106
(save the code as a regular file, in wine source folder (wine-1.5.6) name it for example hack-patch)
patch -Np1 -i hack-patch
3) In order to be able to compile wine, you need a lot of developing libraries you probably won't have in your system. Fortunately, in Ubuntu there is a very easy way to do this, with:
sudo apt-get build-dep wine1.4
(this installs all the needed libs for wine 1.4, it worked perfectly with 1.5 too)
in my system it downloaded about 200Megs of data :doh:
4) verify everything is ok with
./configure
5) if reported ok, you can then
make
6) magic will happen for a few minutes while new wine is compiled.
then the command
sudo make install
will setup your new wine binaries
7) Done!!
PS: Unfortunately in my first test sh5 runs sloooow compared to Sh4. That was to be expected, when the kids go to bed i'll test it a bit more, but I could load one of the historical missions and mess around a bit. Though I didnt go inside since I have no mods installed yet, and I never cared much to learn the new (silly?) sh5 interface! :rotfl2:
Anyway my objective is achieved, I wanted to get the thing working, even if I don't play it! :arrgh!: