Wine without X
Barnaby Scott
bds at waywood.co.uk
Thu Mar 26 16:05:26 PDT 2009
Jeff Laine wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:12:17PM +0000, Barnaby Scott wrote:
>> Bill Moran wrote:
>>> In response to Barnaby Scott <bds at waywood.co.uk>:
>>>
>>>> I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere
>>>> and go no response.
>>>>
>>>> I want to install wine, but without X on the system.
>>> Why would you expect this to be possible? The GUI is an integral part
>>> of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how wine would work at all without X
>>> installed -- which is probably why you're not getting any answers.
>>>
>>> Perhaps you should back up and consider what you're trying to accomplish.
>>> If you don't need a GUI, then what programs do you expect to run under
>>> wine, and is there some better way to get them?
>>>
>> Thanks for your reply
>>
>> I know this is possible because I have seen discussion of it in Linux
>> and wine forums. I'm just too inexperienced to know which bits of the
>> instructions are OS-specific, and what other nightmares I might face. I
>> might be able to figure it all out by weeks of trial and error, but that
>> seems crazy if someone has been there before me!
>>
>> As for why I want it to run, that is because the application I want to
>> run is a bolt-on to a specific bit of rendering software that we use,
>> and there really is no viable non-Windows replacement in our situation -
>> believe me, if there was, I'd be using it. (In case you care, we are
>> talking about Vray for Rhino, which we use because we use Rhino, and
>> because we use Rhino we chose RhinoCAM, and because we chose RhinoCAM I
>> spent weeks writing software to make it talk to our CNC equipment, whose
>> controller is inextricably Windows-based... you get the picture!)
>>
>> In answer to the other replies (thanks to you guys too):
>>
>> Yes, wine is fine with just the command prompt. It is somewhat confusing
>> in that it offers a thing called wineconsole, but ironically that *does*
>> appear to require X. Just using wine without X is fine, so long as the
>> app does not attempt to open any sort of window, system tray etc.
>>
>> As for the 'cluttering' - I'm not so worried about disk space, that's
>> cheap these days. It's more a question of updating ports. When I once
>> made the mistake of installing X and various other things I turned out
>> not to need, the process of updating everything became a nightmare -
>> stuff breaking because I hadn't read the updating info for a bunch of
>> fonts or something stupid like that. Multiply that by 3 servers, and,
>> well, no thanks!
>
>
> wineconsole app seems working fine in terminal with no X at all.
> I ran it like this:
>
> ./wineconsole --backend=curses cmd
>
OK thanks, I stand corrected (just shows how unreliable GOOGLING
sometimes is!) If/when I can get this working I will check out
wineconsole, though as I said, the app I want to run has no visible
output at all, console or otherwise - it just talks to the main renderer
over the network, but (dammit) is a Windows binary.
Barnaby
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