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filosofo
on Jan 12, 2007

Installing Wine on Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) 64-bit

Using a 64-bit operating system is somewhat like being left-handed: you feel with some justification that you’re orbiting among the elite, but the world is designed against you. Installing Wine on 32-bit Ubuntu was a breeze: just a couple lines of APT. However, for 64-bit systems you have to compile Wine yourself. Even following the directions on the Wine wiki, I ran into compile errors:

ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf64-x86-64
(/usr/lib/libsicuuc.a(ubidi.ao)) to format elf32-i386 (gdi32.Q3Qz7R.o) is
not supported winebuild: ld -m elf_i386 -r failed with status 256
winegcc: ../../tools/winebuild/winebuild failed.
make[2]: *** [gdi32.dll.so] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/drimbar/wine-0.9.1-winehq/dlls/gdi'
make[1]: *** [gdi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/drimbar/wine-0.9.1-winehq/dlls'
make: *** [dlls] Error 2 Compilation failed, aborting install.

So here’s what I did, combining tips from the Wine wiki and this forum.

First, get some fonts for Wine.

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
sudo apt-get install fontforge

Next, some compiling dependencies.

sudo apt-get install gcc flex bison libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386

This next part worried me a little bit when the Wine wiki said to do it; here you make symbolic links for your 32-bit library files, but I already had these symbolic links pointing to other files. I’m not sure where the existing links came from, but I just wrote over them.

cd /usr/lib32
sudo ln -s libX11.so.6 libX11.so
sudo ln -s libXext.so.6 libXext.so
sudo ln -s libfreetype.so.6 libfreetype.so
sudo ln -s libz.so.1 libz.so

I initially omitted this next step but got OpenGL compile errors.

sudo ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so
sudo ln -s libGLU.so.1 libGLU.so

I had already downloaded and extracted the Wine source code, in my case version 0.9.29 that was just released a couple of days ago.

Set the library directories and the compiler environment.

LDFLAGS="-L/lib32 -L/usr/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib32" CC="gcc-3.4 -m32"

Then I entered the extracted Wine directory and configured the installation files.

./configure

I edited the dlls/gdi32/Makefile file to point to the 32-bit libraries. I replaced
EXTRALIBS = /usr/lib/libsicuuc.a /usr/lib/libsicudata.a -lstdc++ -lgcc_s
with
EXTRALIBS = /usr/lib32/libsicuuc.a /usr/lib/libsicudata.a -lstdc++ -lgcc_s

Unfortunately the 32-bit libsicudata.a library file now linked to didn’t already exist, so I had to download it from here and move it to the /usr/lib/ directory. It’s a little voodoo programming, because I have no idea what libsicudata.a does, but without it I got compile errors.

make depend
make all

Finally, no errors at this point, so I could install.

sudo make install
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20 Comments

  1. Luke wrote on January 29, 2007 at 10:02 am

    This was so helpful! No errors or anything, worked first try.

  2. Fuzzy
    wrote on January 31, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    A note: The EXTRALIBS field on my compile was blank. When I added “/usr/lib32/libsicuuc.a /usr/lib/libsicudata.a -lstdc++ -lgcc_s” the compile failed giving a similar error message as the one at the beginning of this blog. I left the field blank and Wine compiled happily. Good luck to all!
    -Fuzzy

  3. Dion
    wrote on February 7, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    can you add a link to your precompiled binary

    cheers

  4. Rowan Lewis
    wrote on February 8, 2007 at 7:45 am

    You just made my day!

    The EXTRALIBS thing doesn’t seem to apply to Wine 0.9.30.

  5. Steve wrote on February 9, 2007 at 7:19 am

    Great guide man, got it working first time with no errors, if only you could do the same with beryl

  6. art wrote on February 14, 2007 at 9:56 am

    easier:

    download the last wine package for ubuntu:

    http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html

    install using dpkg:

    sudo dpkg –force-architecture -i wine_0.9.30~winehq0~ubuntu~6.10-1_i386.deb

  7. E wrote on March 6, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    This may be me being stupid, but I don’t understand where you extract the Wine source code to, or which is the ‘Wine directory’

  8. filosofo
    wrote on March 6, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    Anywhere; it doesn’t matter. I extracted it to a directory for my downloads, then the “Wine directory” is whatever directory it creates when you extract it.

  9. E wrote on March 7, 2007 at 12:02 am

    Mmkay, I get it now. It was me being dumb, but in a different way than I thought. I didn’t even have the proper source package

  10. E wrote on March 7, 2007 at 12:51 am

    Okay, so I’ve done all this, but now when I try and run something in Wine through terminal, it gives me this:
    err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
    err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
    err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
    err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
    Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
    The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!
    Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
    The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!

    I followed your directions exactly, so I don’t understand what the problem is.

  11. filosofo
    wrote on March 7, 2007 at 11:02 pm

    Try installing the libxxf86dga1 package to see if that eliminates your errors.

    I don’t claim to be an expert on Wine, so you might want to try more official channels of help.

  12. Evan wrote on March 7, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    It is installed. Oh well, I’ll live without Wine for the while, I suppose.

  13. Georg wrote on March 12, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    If only this would work at my system….
    I tried a few things now for the last 4 hours…everytime I get the message

    ../../tools/winegcc/winegcc -B../../tools/winebuild -shared ./ddraw.spec clipper.o ddraw.o ddraw_thunks.o device.o direct3d.o executebuffer.o gamma.o light.o main.o material.o palette.o parent.o regsvr.o surface.o surface_thunks.o texture.o utils.o vertexbuffer.o viewport.o version.res -o ddraw.dll.so -lole32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -ladvapi32 -lkernel32 -lntdll -ldxguid -luuid -L/usr/lib -lXext -lX11 ../../libs/port/libwine_port.a -L/lib32 -L/usr/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib32
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.a when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib32/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../lib32/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../libXext.a when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/../lib32/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libXext.a when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib32/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.a when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
    collect2: ld gab 1 als Ende-Status zurück
    winegcc: gcc-3.4 failed.
    make[2]: *** [ddraw.dll.so] Fehler 2
    make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis ‘/root/wine-0.9.25/dlls/ddraw’
    make[1]: *** [ddraw] Fehler 2
    make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis ‘/root/wine-0.9.25/dlls’
    make: *** [dlls] Fehler 2

    I’m not sure if this has something to do with the /dlls/gdi32 because the make in this directory works

    Any idea?

  14. Georg wrote on March 12, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    Something more….
    in my case the linking wasn’t so easy.

    e.g. /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 does not exist….so I made link to /usr/lib/libX11.so.6

    I’m sure if this is useful

  15. waverider wrote on March 20, 2007 at 5:42 am

    Yes – I have the same problem:

    err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
    Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
    The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!

    Using wine-0.9.33 on Kubuntu edgy

  16. Ixai wrote on April 5, 2007 at 1:37 am

    i got the same error as Georg


    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.a when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libXext.a when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.a when searching for -lXext
    /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    winegcc: gcc failed.
    make[2]: *** [ddraw.dll.so] Error 2
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ixai/.wine/wine-0.9.34/dlls/ddraw'
    make[1]: *** [ddraw] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ixai/.wine/wine-0.9.34/dlls'
    make: *** [dlls] Error 2

    anyone knows of a way to solve this?

  17. chip
    wrote on April 14, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    Initially I got the same errors as Ixai.
    I’m running Feisty Fawn, 64 bit.
    I installed all the packages listed here:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=29728 (mentioned above)
    Once I got them installed the config and compile went ok without errors.

  18. chip
    wrote on April 14, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    ‘course now that it’s built, it dumps core…
    bleah.

  19. Aarthi wrote on August 21, 2007 at 9:42 am

    ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386 (obj/debug/TestAppLogAttr.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (obj/debug/TestApp.lo) is not supported

    what could be solution for such a problem ….
    my linux is 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 14:15:14 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  20. Aarthi wrote on August 21, 2007 at 9:43 am

    ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386 (obj/debug/TestAppLogAttr.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (obj/debug/TestApp.lo) is not supported

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