problem installing wine on Salix 13.37 64 bits

[denis_p]

Hi everyone,

when I try to install wine through sourcery on my Salix 64 bits system, I get an error message :
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configure: error: Cannot build a 32-bit program, you need to install 32-bit development libraries.
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The wine README file says :

This will not build on a stock 64bit Slackware system, and we do not
support doing so with 32bit-compatibility packages. That doesn't mean
that it won't work - we just don't support it at all.

Anyone knows what these 32bit-compatibility packages are ?
Thanks,

Denis

[thenktor]

See here: http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

EDIT: What do you want to run with Wine? Perhaps installing Windows in a VirtualBox is the better choice.

[denis_p]

See here: http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

EDIT: What do you want to run with Wine? Perhaps installing Windows in a VirtualBox is the better choice.

hi thenktor,

and thanks for you answser. I checked the link you provided, but unfortunately, what is explained seems beyond what I have time to understand and realize.
About your other proposal, I don't have any Windows install device to try Virtualbox (also I'd rather use wine since I'm quite familiar with it, and not at all with Virtualbox). I hoped installing wine would only need some more required packages installing but, as far as I understand, it seems that this is more complicated...
Maybe I should get back to Salix OS 32 bits, I guess installing wine will be simpler.
(and maybe it will resolve another problem that I meet installing flash-plugin)
Regards,

Denis

[thenktor]

About your other proposal, I don't have any Windows install device to try Virtualbox (also I'd rather use wine since I'm quite familiar with it, and not at all with Virtualbox).

Yes, the downside in using VirtualBox is that you need an Windows license but apart from that it's much better for windows programs than wine will ever be (except for 3D stuff I guess). But of course you can just use Salix 32 bit + wine.