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Spud Notes for installing Wine/Vara

Box enables x86 binary to run on arm, wine enables windows to run in linux

Installing Wine on Intel /Debian

Pi4 or 5 tip for stability March2023

Pi4 or 5 to load box 86

Load up Pi-Apps http://pi-apps.io

  • wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash
  • Use the Pi-Apps GUI navigate to Tools->Emulation
    • install Wine 32bit
    • install Box86 32bit

Configure Wine

To manually install latest winetricks

wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks 
sudo mv -v winetricks /usr/local/bin
  • Install DLL with winetricks by running "winetricks" from CLI
    • You may want to run WINEARCH=win32 winetricks to set it up the first time, on wow64 it will fail
    • press OK for 'default prefix'
    • choose install a DLL or component
    • Select some needed DLL and press OK to install
      • Vara comdlg32ocx, comctl32oxc, pdh-nt4, vb6run
      • VarAC vcrun2010
WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
/usr/local/bin/winetricks --force pdh_nt4
/usr/local/bin/winetricks --force vb6run
/usr/local/bin/winetricks --force comdlg32ocx
/usr/local/bin/winetricks --force comctl32ocx
/usr/local/bin/winetricks --force vcrun2010

Wine Serial Ports

wine regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wine\Ports add a new String Value for example of: COM1 and the value /dev/ttyUSB0

Vara

  • Download Vara, WinLink and a bunch more tools single command

    • wget -r -A "*.zip" 'https://downloads.winlink.org/'

  • if needed (program crash for missing stuff) try copy all the OCX files in VARA rather then set paths or register

    • cp ~/.wine/drive_c/VARA/OCX/* ~/.wine/drive_c/VARA/

  • https://github.com/islandmagic/varanny

VarAC

  • download needs a free login get it from https://www.varac-hamradio.com/downloadlinux

  • remember to validate your VarAC.ini and disable LinixCompatibleMode=OFF .net crash seems to happen with it ON

    • sed -i 's/LinuxCompatibleMode=OFF/LinuxCompatibleMode=OFF/' ~/.wine/drive_c/VarAC/VarAC.ini
    • possible missing fonts? its unclear why they are not being used by varac.