LiveCode Windows Applications on Ubuntu

[Richmond Mathewson]

My take on WINE is a bit different from Richard Gaskin's . . .

I 100% agree with his: "Build native apps for Linux and enjoy better 
performance and a simpler experience."

and with his:

"If it's for testing Windows compatibility, the emulation won't tell you 
nearly as much as running a full Windows system in a VM."

HOWEVER, IFF (If and Only If) you end up with a LiveCode Windows 
standalone in your hands which you HAVE to run and you
have no access either to a box or a VM running Windows then run it with 
WINE.

I have NEVER had a system conflict with WINE, however the fact that in 
the last 2 years the WINE menu system has vanished, so to
get at the settings one has to fiddle around with the terminal, makes it 
a ridiculous time-waster if there are any other options
available to you.

I have a small 32-bit and a small 64-bit pair of computers set up in a 
"murky corner" of my study with Windows on them
(my bank had some spare licences they gave me because I did some data 
retrieval for them when they got "popped" by
some ransomware a while ago). As I don't like Windows I use them only 
for testing standalones. As the actual computers
cost me $25 each . . .

Creating and using LiveCode Windows applications to run under WINE 
instead of going directly for a Linux build is
daft when LiveCode standalones built for Linux generally run just as 
well without the expectation that one's end-users
are to have WINE installed.

Oh, and if you don't find running LiveCode standalones built for Windows 
with WINE exotic enough try running them with
ReactOS (http://www.reactos.org/), but remember to whip round to the 
local apothecary for a large jar of headache pills first.

Richmond.

On 10/26/17 3:40 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> Alejandro Tejada wrote:
>
> > Recently, I was running a few LiveCode Windows applications in Ubuntu
> > (using Wine) and found that all of them run really well.
> >
> > Do you have some advice and caveats for creating and using LiveCode
> > Windows applications that runs fine under Wine in Ubuntu or any other
> > Linux distribution?
>
> Only this: don't. :)
>
> Build native apps for Linux and enjoy better performance and a simpler 
> experience.
>
> It's been a few years since I used WINE, and it may well be that my 
> experience with it back then bears no resemblance to how it runs 
> today. But it felt very much a workaround, and the range of component 
> it added to my system eventually created a conflict with something else.
>
> WINE helped make me a big fan of VirtualBox. :)
>
> If it's for testing Windows compatibility, the emulation won't tell 
> you nearly as much as running a full Windows system in a VM.
>
> And if all you want is to run a LiveCode app, a Linux-native build is 
> just one click away....
>