how to run emule with wine under linux

related pages: howto for emule version 0.30e



1.software you need:
emule: version 0.22c or 0.24b,0.26a,0.26b , not 0.25b [1]
wine: version 20020904 (tested) and libwine-print [2]

linux: debian woody testing [3] 

several dll's, most suitable out of the same windows version, but in downloaded mine. [4]


commctrl.dll
comctl32.dll
ole32.dll
oleaut32.dll
rpcrt4.dll
shdocvw.dll
shlwapi.dll


download them all here:

 dll_for_wine.zip (2.3MB) 
 dll_for_wine.tgz (2.3MB)

[1] http://www.emule-project.net
[2] http://www.winehq.com
[3] http://www.debian.org
[4] http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index.shtml

2. installation

wine & libwine-print:

you get wine as .rpm or .deb packages, libwine-print too 

under debian gnu/linux very simple ;-)


# apt-get install wine

# apt-get install libwine-print


emule:


# wine emule0.22c_installer.exe


dll:


copy the dll's to  ~/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/System/

3. configuration:
add to configuration file of wine:


[AppDefaults\\eMule.exe\\DllOverrides] 
"commctrl" = "native" 
"comctl32" = "native" 
"ole32" = "native" 
"oleaut32" = "native" 
"rpcrt4" = "native" 
"shdocvw" = "native" 
"shlwapi" = "native" 

4. lets start:

# cd  ~/.wine/fake_windows/program_files/eMule/ 

# wine emule.exe &

and emule runs ...

to get a connection to a server you have to get a server.met file, 
server.met as input for a search engine, download , import into emule ...
 

5. updates ...

in between there is emule version 0.24b, no problem to run it. 
you just have to replace the emule.exe, not to do a complete installation ..


0.25b crash

6. bugs
 

emule crashes randomly, but mostly after a few hours

thats the reason why i mad this small, dirty  shell script. it restarts emule.exe every hour. 
it looks as wine only run one instant of emule so you don't have to worry.


#!/bin/sh

while true;do
        wine emule.exe
        echo start emule
        sleep 3600
done

sources: 

http://frankscorner.org/wine/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=104&page=1
http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976
http://bismark.caltanet.it/newsgroup/article.php?id=52182&group=it.comp.os.linux.software
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=6ada704d.0212191618.3f60e0eb%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dwine%2BeMule%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26selm%3D6ada704d.0212191618.3f60e0eb%2540posting.google.com%26rnum%3D1