[ECC2] in Wine (on *nix systems)

[strangerstill]

Hi, thought I'd start a thread on running ECC2 in wine so that people can discuss their results and troubles.

I'll kick this off with a quickie on getting it running automatically...

I wanted ECC2 to start at the end of runlevel 5, i.e. before anyone logs in, so it runs even if my machine gets knocked over by a power cut while I'm away. Thing is, wine appears to need X to run, so I can't do it from an init.d script - so the place to run ECC2 from is the login manager startup script.

I use gdm (RH8) so the file to edit is /etc/X11/xdm/XSetup_0 or your equivalent (look for the line "DisplayManager._0.setup: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0" in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config) - append the lines:

cd /mnt/winedrive/Program\ Files/ECC2
nice -n 19 /usr/local/bin/wine /mnt/winedrive/Program\ Files/ECC2/CLIclient.exe > /dev/null 2> /mnt/winedrive/Program\ Files/ECC2/error.log &

This is fairly kludgy, but it works! although if anyone knows of a better way...

Oh, also I wanna be able to see how it's getting on - so I use this script:

==== <Ecc2dir>/status ====

#!/bin/sh

cd "`dirname "$0"`"
while true; do
cat ecc2-109.spd
sleep 1
tput cuu1
done

(Ecc2 outputs its status every second or so to ecc2-109.spd)

ECC2-109 in Linux! Yum!

FeLine has a page up w/ instructions on running it w/o WINE. It's a lot fast than WINE.

He also has a GUI wrapper for it as well.

You'll have to submit DP's manually from hawkeye177's page, but I think it's worth the IT/s gain.

I'm not try to "crap", just letting ya know.

Linux ECC2 Client

[strangerstill]

Hey, thanks! I thought we were still waiting for the ECC2 Linux client.
I'll have to try that out now...

I compiled it from src a couple of days ago. Spent some time w/ FeLine on irc last night letting him know some of the "issues" I was running into.

The wrapper looks real clean and the compile part was easy as pie. I am amazed I got through it!

For those still n00bs like me, don't be afraid to try it.