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fastrizwaan / flatpak-wine

wine using flatpak (build with runtime freedesktop sdk 22.08), provides wine to Centos like distros (https://flatpak.org/setup/)
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Use as a base or Sdk? #5

Closed FilBot3 closed 3 years ago

FilBot3 commented 3 years ago

Is it possible to use this flatpak as a base or sdk so as to package a Windows application in a Flatpak?

fastrizwaan commented 3 years ago

Yes,

If you want simpler way, Winepak is just a script which bundles directplay/installed application directory and wine together, which can be used https://github.com/fastrizwaan/winepak-x86_64

or you can have this with an installer, see this https://github.com/johnramsden/pathofexile-flatpak/blob/master/ca.johnramsden.pathofexile.json

I've created a script, to create desktop shortcuts for exe files, perhaps I'll add another script to create a game bottle which can be run with this flatpak.

FilBot3 commented 3 years ago

Awesome, I'll take a look. I guess this issue can be closed. I'll update with anything I figure out as well. I'm looking to add an application that is supposed to have Linux clients soon, but the developer hasn't and with as many times as I'm reinstalling my Host OS, having a flatpak with that tool on it already ready to go, would be spiffy.

FilBot3 commented 3 years ago

Reminds me of this site: https://www.winepak.org/ but those repositories haven't seen any love since 2018.

fastrizwaan commented 3 years ago

Actually, I just wanted to create wine bundles to save my apps and games, usually, .wine get corrupted/messed up with testing various programs. I saw with flatpak-linux script (make-flatpak.sh) https://pirateproxy.ltda/search.php?q=flatpak-linux&all=on&search=Pirate+Search&page=0&orderby=, but it depended on PlayOnLinux for wine. Flatpak has different libraries. So to make flatpak sdk compatible wine build and to create wine bundles, I've created this flatpak.

The issues I faced were, wine was continuously updating in distro causing apps to break. .wine directory gets messy with various setup files and installations. So, needed a clean wine bottles. Lutris, Bottles are not working as expected.

Now that I've made wine wow64 with flatpak 20.08, it will be supported at least for 5 years. so wine apps inside a bundle will be easier to work with. also this provides wine to centos like distros where wine 32 bit is not provided.