You need to construct additional pylons. Building wine for #FreeBSD


I’ve been playing Blizzards’s Starcraft 2 on Linux via wine emulation lately and thought I’d see if I can get the same thing working on FreeBSD via the emulators/i386-wine-devel port.  After talking with the fine folks in #bsdports on EFNet, I finally found a recipe that is poudriere friendly and seems to spit out something that sort of works.

David Naylor (dbn@freebsd.org) has a working method for constructing wine on FreeBSD and this should work in most cases for using current.  The method is really designed for building a binary package for releases, most folks wouldn’t want to go down this route.

In order to begin, get poudriere configured and ready to go.  You’ll need to construct an i386 jail for the first part of this process.  Something like I show in my poudiere blog post

poudriere jail -c -j 11i386 -v head -a i386 -m svn

This will give you a build environment to get the 32bit binaries for wine built and packaged up for step 2.

poudriere builk -j 11i386 emulators/i386-wine-devel

If all goes well, you now have an i386 package of wine that will be consumed as a distfile for the amd64 package build.  I redefine PORTSDIR=/usr/local/poudriere/ports/default in /etc/make.conf.

If you are like me and use poudriere for everything, copy it to /usr/local/poudriere/ports/defaults/distfiles/freebsd:11:x86:64/

Now you’ll need to edit the emulators/i386-wine-devel distfile with the appropriate information generated from a sha256 and ls -l of your packagefile in your local i386 repo:

sha256 i386-wine-devel-1.7.7,1.txz

SHA256 (i386-wine-devel-1.7.7,1.txz) = 8d0073d1c10be9afbe7c3c9874a31ac110c1f96cf6ddcda74ca16d31bad55d1b

Modify this with the following to make it compatible with your system:

SHA256 (freebsd:11:x86:64/i386-wine-devel-1.7.7,1.txz) = 8d0073d1c10be9afbe7c3c9874a31ac110c1f96cf6ddcda74ca16d31bad55d1b

Modify the Makefile.inc to exclude checks for the OS version:

Index: Makefile.inc
===================================================================
— Makefile.inc    (revision 335346)
+++ Makefile.inc    (working copy)
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@

.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>

-.if !(${OSVERSION} >= 803000 && ${OSVERSION} < 900000) && !(${OSVERSION} >= 901000 && ${OSVERSION} < 1000000)
-IGNORE=        binaries compiled for FreeBSD 8.3+ and 9.1+ only
-DISTFILES=
-.endif
+#.if !(${OSVERSION} >= 803000 && ${OSVERSION} < 900000) && !(${OSVERSION} >= 901000 && ${OSVERSION} < 1000000)
+#IGNORE=        binaries compiled for FreeBSD 8.3+ and 9.1+ only
+#DISTFILES=
+#.endif

.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MGECKO}
RUN_DEPENDS+=   ${DATADIR}/gecko/wine_gecko-2.24-x86.msi:${PORTSDIR}/emulators/wine-gecko-devel

And now, you can try building the package in your *AMD64* poudriere build with:

poudriere bulk -j 11amd64 emulators/i386-wine-devel

If my instructions have succeeded, you now have a package suitable for installation on your amd64 machine that will now let you do wine things.

Now, I need to figure out what the Blizzard Network Installer is trying to do as it runs, self-updates and hangs.