I was searching for a tutorial for compiling wine and running it from source.
If I "simply" do ./configure && make i obtain a directory that 200mb.

I noticed that the .pol packages are ca 75mb heavy, so I was asking myself how you do it, and it is possible to run wine from the pol package without having wine installed...

if i do make clean my directory occupies ca 125mb and I can't run wine from source...

thanks to everyone!

You can build wine like this :

./configure --prefix=/
make
make install DESTDIR="$HOME/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-x86/version-name"

thank you, I'll try

if I want to remove the installed package I just need to remove "$HOME/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-x86/version-name" , right?

yep

ok, now I'm compiling, I'll check after "make install" how much space it'll take.

Because I have more than one user on my laptop I would like to "install" different versions of wine (and after it some windows-programs) under /opt, so i thought I could do

./configure --prefix=/
make
make install DESTDIR="/opt/wine-version"

or is it

./configure --prefix=/opt/wine-version
make
make install

better? are there any difference?

thank you very much Tinou

I think that the second one is better, but with the first one, you can choose where to install after building

Ok, thanks

Now I've tried to install the package as you wrote before, I do not have Playonlinux installed so the only thing under the directory .Playonlinux is the wine version i just installed and it is ca 200mb big, if I download a .pol file and unzip it it's only 90mb big, ca. the half; am I doing something wrong? Are there some files that you have removed? Or how is it possible?

doing some more research I've noticed that in my /lib/wine directory I have 177mb of things in ca. 600 files, in the /lib/wine directory of the unzipped .pol file I have 68mb of things in ca. 550 files...

edit: using meld I can view the differences between the two directories, is it somehow possible to save in a text file the result so that I can post it here?

And, (this would be the last question) what do you think would be the best way for doing a package for different wine versions that installs them in /opt and creates a link in bin?

For example I would like to run from the terminal "wine1.1.38" and the 1.1.38 wine versions under opt would be called...

I only managed to do packages with checkinstall, but I don't know how to insert the link in bin and add the needed dependencies for running wine (I think I'll need the same dependencies of the normal wine package...

again: thank you very much for all the help you gave me!

Edited by fekir

Yep, it's normal. Our building server also clean the build and remove developement files

A symbolic link should work yes

Ah, ok, does it exists some sort of guide/documentation that explains what I could clean?


Again: do you know where I could learn from? Some sort of guide/documentation?
Until now I only used checkinstall for making packages, I have no idea how I could modify one (adding a symlink and where to write the dependencies...)