Wine Platform

wine platform snap that provides WINE base for win application snaps. Snap developers that create WINE snaps can leverage this base snap to connect it to their WINE snaps.

Using this snap base

You can use this snap as a reference for creating snaps of other WINE compatible 32-bit Windows applications or games. Here are the main things you'll need to use in your snaps:

Getting plugs to user snap

• Adding content interface plug in snapcraft.yaml

plugs:
  wine-platform-plug:
    content: wine-base-stable
    interface: content
    target: $SNAP/wine-platform
    default-provider: wine-platform

apps:
  foo:
   command: bar
   plugs:
    - wine-platform-plug

Here's an example that shows how to use some of the capabilities outlined above:

• Here wine-platform-plug is used by user snap to connect it's plug to wine-platform snap
• In content wine-base-stable uses the slots of `wine-platform each slot has different WINE versions
• wine-base-stable uses wine-stable
• wine-base-devel uses wine-devel
• wine-base-staging uses wine-staging
• only one WINE base per snap is used
• In target $SNAP/wine-platform where wine-base data will be mounted though Developers have to ship that empty DIR in root PATH of their snaps

Getting wine-base env PATHs to user snap

• defining wine base paths in WINE env on snap wrapper script

export WINEVERPATH=$SNAP/wine-platform/wine-stable
export WINESERVER=$SNAP/wine-platform/wine-stable/bin/wineserver
export WINELOADER=$SNAP/wine-platform/wine-stable/bin/wine
export WINEDLLPATH=$SNAP/wine-platform/wine-stable/lib/wine/fakedlls
export WINETRICKS=$SNAP/wine-platform/bin/winetricks

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$SNAP/wine-platform/lib:$SNAP/wine-platform/lib/$ARCH:$SNAP/wine-platform/usr/lib:$SNAP/wine-platform/usr/lib/$ARCH:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

export PATH=$PATH:$SNAP/wine-platform/bin:$SNAP/wine-platform/usr/bin:$SNAP/wine-platform/wine-stable/bin

• Here targetPATH``$SNAP/wine-platform earlier defined in plugs is used as well as the wine-base which has full PATH $SNAP/wine-platform/wine-stable which can be different depending on wine-base-xxxxx used by the snaps so in this exp we are using wine-base-stable
• Developers should use the target PATH in other libraries CONFIG env

Connecting the plugs

• Well plug connection should be automate with the base snap when installing the user snap that has plugs properly defined if not then use below command to connect foo snap to wine platform snap manually with wine-base-stable slot of wine-platform to use wine-stable

snap connect foo:wine-platform-plug wine-platform:wine-base-stable

Check out wrapper scripts that are using this snap env

notepad-plus-plus - cncra

Also check snapcraft.yamls for further refrences

notepad-plus-plus - cncra

If you have any questions about creating snaps of WINE compatible Windows applications then post in the Snapcraft forum.