The following Version of Winery I consider stable so I'm adding it as a release.
Functions on OSX10.8 > macOS10.14 including the EngineRepacking feature.
This was verified by downloaded and Engine and creating a Wrapper on OSX10.8.
Link to source code
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CreateFileA(
"C:\\some_file.txt", //lpFileName
GENERIC_WRITE, //dwDesiredAccess
0, //dwShareMode
NULL, //lpSecurityAttributes
CREATE_ALWAYS, //dwCreationDisposition
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, //dwFlagsAndAttributes
NULL //hTemplateFile
); open call: open(
"/home/aeikum/.wine/drive_c/some_file.txt", //path
O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, //oflag
0644 //creation mode
); write.
Of course the actual implementation of CreateFileA in Wine is far, far
more complicated than this (consider the path conversion, for example),
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Hi everyone!
We wish a happy and successful year! For this first day of 2019, we are glad to release the second alpha version of Phoenicis PlayOnLinux 5.
We have rewritten from scratch our winebuild platform. To make it short, it is more reliable, more transparent, easier to setup and cross-platform compatible. Any project that needs to use wine could now potentially use it and take advantage of the 1828 different builds. (We admit that some of them are outdated, though).
The winebuild project is open source, uses containers. You can install it on your machine in no time if you want to build wine by yourself.
Speaking about wine builds, we now support 4 wine distributions:
We plan to support proton in the next weeks.
All these wine build can be compiled directly through https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis-winebuild/.
(1) Except the very old versions that have a specific suffix is their names, like 1.5.3-heap_allocation_v2-avoid_deadlock, but we are going to move them anyway.
Winebuild now provides dos_support distribution. The way these wine binaries works is very simple: Wine launch script has been modified to detect if the given .exe is Win32 or a DOS executable. If it is a DOS executable, it will set-up a dosbox configuration that will behave consistenly with wine:
The script framework has also been modified so that you can tweak some dosbox settings directly from a script. Here is an exemple of "advanced" script
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | wine.run(wine.prefixDirectory() + "/drive_c/The Elder Scroll 1: Arena/Arena106.exe"); // Arena106.exe is a w32 fine, wine will runwine.dosbox() .memSize(64) .renderAspect(true) .cpuCycles("max 95% limit 33000") .renderFrameSkip(1);wine.run(wine.prefixDirectory() + "/drive_c/The Elder Scroll 1: Arena/ARENA.BAT"); // ARENA.BAT is obviously a MS-DOS file, dosbox will run |
We've added a way to add a web browser view directly inside script wizards. Thanks to this feature, scripts can now authenticate to any website.
Phoenicis can automatically download and install GoG games from your account, as POLv4 used to do during the past years.
A complete demonstration video of gog.com support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fopp-x9Fz3g&feature=youtu.be
Also, we have made a script pattern for all GoG games: it has drastically simplified them from POLv4. The script are so much easier that we believe that they will be a lot more maintained.
| POLv5 script | POLv4 script | ||||
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We are planning to add tons of GoG games in the library so stay tuned!
You can now install verbs directly from a wine container.
I'd like to thank once again all the developers that helped us during the past weeks, plata, madoar, and also all those of you that contributed by reporting bugs, suggesting improvements, or tested phoenicis-winebuild.
Our next goals is to focus on prefix management (change of wine version inside a prefix, add debugging tools, etc...) and performance optimization.
If you have any suggestion or encounter any bug, we encourage you to come in our Github page: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/. This version is still at alpha-stage, so please be indulgent.
I also take the opportunity of this news to also announce you that PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.3.4 has been released. They have been updated to support the new winebuild system, and the different windows of the application have been made resizable. It should fix the HDPI issues some of you were encoutering. We continue to maintain these versions until you are 100% satisfied with POLv5
Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!
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Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.
It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also allows the installation of missing DLLs and tweaking of various Wine settings.
This version can be downloaded here.
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