Creating wine addon packages

For package maintainers

Every stable release is tagged: wine-nine-"major wine"-"patchlevel".

As the wine API is stable, the "major wine" version will be: 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 ...

The "patchlevel" is incremented with every new feature or bugfix on the stable branch.

The stable releases can be build against wine or wine-staging and have no dependencies to 3rd-party patches.

Example of creating a wine addon package on Fedora

Assuptions

• The addon package will enhance wine and doesn't replace any files.
• The addon package will only contain files that are required for nine.
• The addon package has all dependencies to correctly install everything from scratch.
• The addon package works with vanilla wine and wine staging.
• The addon package works with all wine minor releases.
• The addon package must depend on the wine major release number.

Example spec file

The following example is written for the wine-stable-3.0 branch. It is not a complete file, but shows the basic idea.

1. Create a spec file to build a new package. Add the following lines:

    %define patchlevel 2
    Name:             wine-nine
    Version:          3.0
    Release:          %{?dist}
    Summary:          Wine D3D9 interface library for Mesa's Gallium Nine statetracker
   

2. Depend on wine package

    Requires:       wine-common >= %{version}
    Enhances:       wine
   

3. Depend on libraries

    Requires:       mesa-dri-drivers(x86-64)
    Requires:       mesa-libd3d(x86-64)
    Requires:       libxcb(x86-64)
    Requires:       libX11(x86-64)
    Requires:       libXext(x86-64)
   

4. Add the build step. Deselect all wine features:

    %prep
    %autosetup -n wine-%{name}-%{version}-%{patchlevel}
   
    %build
   
    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=%{_libdir}/pkgconfig
   
    ./configure \
    --with-x \
    --without-freetype \
    --without-fontconfig \
    --without-curses \
    --without-cms \
    --without-gstreamer \
    --without-alsa \
    --without-capi \
    --without-opencl \
    --without-openal \
    --without-netapi  \
    --without-mpg123 \
    --without-ldap \
    --without-krb5 \
    --without-jpeg \
    --without-gnutls \
    --without-coreaudio \
    --without-dbus \
    --without-cups \
    --without-gsm \
    --without-osmesa \
    --without-oss  \
    --without-pcap \
    --without-png \
    --without-pulse \
    --without-sane \
    --without-tiff \
    --without-udev \
    --without-v4l \
    --without-xinput \
    --without-xinput2 \
    --without-xml \
    --without-xslt \
    --without-zlib \
    --with-d3d9-nine \
    %ifarch x86_64
    --enable-win64 \
    %endif
    --disable-tests
   

5. Build only the files we need:

    make include
    make __builddeps__
    make d3d9-nine.dll.so -C dlls/d3d9-nine
    make d3d9-nine.dll.fake -C dlls/d3d9-nine
    make programs/ninewinecfg
   

6. Add the files we have build:

    %files
    %dir %{_libdir}/wine
    %dir %{_libdir}/wine/fakedlls
    %{_libdir}/wine/*.so
    %{_libdir}/wine/fakedlls/*
   

7. Run ldconfig as we have added libraries:

    %post -p /sbin/ldconfig
    %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig