Hello everyone,
I tried to read the docs and researched the Forum and Stackoverflow for some pointers but right know i think only a Developer can answer this build specific Question.
My Project: Right know, iam trying to package a Server App (hMailServer) for Debian but also for MacOS which can run headless on WINE right now. It only needs the Console Subsystem or can run as Windows Service, so there is really no X11 or GUI stuff going on. The server simply starts with wine c:\hMailServer\Bin\hMailServer.exe or it can be register itself as Windows Service by running c:\hMailServer\Bin\hMailServer.exe /Register
Right now, it runs on Debian11 Bullseye AMD64 and MacOS 12 Monterey this way in 64-Bit mode (AMD64/x86_64) just fine.
Now i want to package it as Debian *.deb package and MacOS *.pkg Installer package but i dont want to interfere with a existing WINE Installation on the target System nor i want the User for example to Setup WINE on MacOS with brew or on Linux with apt-get ect. hMailServer is a very popular and easy to use Windows 32 and 64-Bit Software and i want it to stay it that way, even on Linux and MacOS.
Long story short: I want to package hMailServer for Linux and MacOS and have all dependencies for WINE aboard. I want the User to install the package so it just runs, like it does for Windows.
So i tried to built my custom WINE Version to make it as small as possible ./configure CFLAGS="-Os" --verbose --without-x --prefix=/opt/build/wine --disable-win16 --disable-tests --without-freetype --without-gstreamer --without-openal --without-gettext --without-ldap --without-vkd3d --without-netapi --without-oss --without-opencl --without-pulse --without-usb --without-pcap --without-vulkan --without-sane --without-sdl --without-cups --without-krb5 --without-gphoto --without-capi --without-fontconfig --without-udev --without-dbus --without-mingw --without-gnutls --without-opengl -disable-win64 --without-x --disable-winemenubuilder make & make install
But even then, the resulted WINE binaries in "/opt/build/wine" are hugh (over 700 MBytes whyle hMailServer is only 20 MBytes in total!) I think thats way to big and i want to cut it down even more.
My question: Is there a clean way or undocumented build switches so i can only bring the console Subsystem up and running without the whole other stuff like DirectX ect?
Just console subsystem running "bare streams" without X11, DirectX, Vulkan3D ect, ect.
Ok, i hope some experienced WINE Developer can give me some hints how to cut down this 700 MByte Monster even a bit more down.
Please; Dont give me tips like, let the user install WINE completely, thats not what i want. I just want the required dependencies for running a Windows Console (CUI) into my installer package, thats all.
Thanks in advance, Dravion