Fwd: How to "bottle" applications for distribution with wine?

[David Gerard]

to list as well


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From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2009/3/29
Subject: Re: How to "bottle" applications for distribution with wine?
To: Ben Klein <shacklein(a)gmail.com>


2009/3/29 Ben Klein <shacklein(a)gmail.com>:
> He's asking if it's possible to bundle a minimal Wine with some native
> app (e.g. EVE "Linux version" which was EVE for Windows with Cedega,
> and the same basic principle for the "Linux version" of the Sims
> shipped with some Mandrakes).
> The only thing I can think of is to calculate the maximum set of
> required DLLs for the application, and only ship those, but it's
> probably not worth it. It's better in general to use a system-wide
> Wine, due to the general-purpose nature of Wine.

Mm. Look at Picasa for Linux, which really does package pretty much a
whole Wine with the app. (I just run the Windows version in my system
Wine ;-) )

So it won't be smaller, but it will be a single package. Are there
notes anywhere on how Picasa packages Wine?


- d.