http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32593
--- Comment #11 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2012-12-30 17:56:04 CST --- (In reply to comment #10)
I just compiled it myself and my game Civilization starts fine in 1.5.20 and master.
Your compiled version likely didn't have the pulseaudio patch that the package does.