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danoon2
Provide updated Wine builds
The latest available Wine version for this project seems to be version 5.0, which was released over 1.5 years ago. Can newer Wine versions, including the current version 6.14, be compiled and provided?
(I've tried to compile it myself following the wiki instructions but I keep getting script errors.)
I made Wine 5.0 the default Wine version because it fixes quite a few older games when it comes to palettes. But on Emscripten/Web builds we still default to using Wine 1.7 because it is much smaller. Overall Wine 1.7 is a good default if it works the game or app you are interested in because it loads noticeably faster than Wine 5.0.
I haven't tried Wine 6 yet, its been on my list of things to do. But so far most of my time this last year has been on ARMv8 (ARM64) and getting a Mac build ready for the app store.
Is there a particular game or app that you know of that runs better in Wine 6? Or is there a new feature in Wine 6 that sounds interesting to you? I'm just curious if I should bump up the priority for getting a Wine 6 build to work.
The improved theming features sounded interesting to me but they aren't particularly important :)
I will go ahead and keep this open until I release a Wine 6 file system. I will probably do it at the same time as Wine 7, probably sometime in February.
Just an update on this. I have built Wine 6 and I'm currently in the process of getting in running. It required a pretty big change where the desktop resolution needed to be updated in volatile registry keys. I checked this change in as part of my vulkan work and can be seen here: https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine/commit/f2a4cfec2a6fc2b4a937d8c02c6fdc89a0c0a8f5. I will continue to work with Wine 6 to work out any other issues with it.