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blazercist
May 29th, 2007, 02:31 PM
I'd like to know if its possible to have 2 different versions of wine each with its own winecfg and fake "c drive" totally seperate from one another... I would change the name of the wine binaries to reflect the versions... thanks.
AndrewRiedi
May 29th, 2007, 05:42 PM
If you compile Wine from source you can run it like so: ~/wine-git/wine without the need to install it. Also look into WINEPREFIX. (Maybe man wine ?)
blazercist
May 30th, 2007, 09:18 AM
I'm not understanding the git-wine thing? I can run the new binary without installing, but that doesn't solve my problem of having two different winecfg's and two fake c drives.
derouge
June 7th, 2007, 07:54 PM
I'm also interested in this. Figured I'd bump it as opposed to posting a new topic. Reason being, I have one program that only works with an older version of WINE. However, I'd also like to have the newer version on hand since, I'm assuming, it's more up to date and will work better in most cases.
AndrewRiedi
June 8th, 2007, 01:38 AM
I'm not understanding the git-wine thing? I can run the new binary without installing, but that doesn't solve my problem of having two different winecfg's and two fake c drives.

You read about WINEPREFIX? It will create another fake windows for you. A new config and everything.
AndrewRiedi
June 8th, 2007, 01:39 AM
I'm also interested in this. Figured I'd bump it as opposed to posting a new topic. Reason being, I have one program that only works with an older version of WINE. However, I'd also like to have the newer version on hand since, I'm assuming, it's more up to date and will work better in most cases.

Do you know how to compile Wine?
derouge
June 8th, 2007, 09:38 AM
Yes. I'll take a look at WINEPREFIX. Thanks. :)