Will not build Wine-Bridge

[xman111111]

I've done everything I can possibly think to get this software to build a Wine-Bridge and it refuses to see or use Wine libraries. Distro is Manjaro Linux and I have tried straight Wine and Wine staging and it will not compile the Wine-Bridge

Rest of the app compiles fine. Head Tracking is working. Everything works except this portion I need. Is there a possible workaround?

Tried both versions too: ./configure --with-wine-libs=-L/usr/lib/wine/ --with-wine64-libs=-L/usr/lib/wine/

In the above directories, I have x86_64-unix and x86_64-windows. Tried pointing it at both. Configure still says the following:

configure: ===============================================================
configure: === Summary ===
configure: ===============================================================
checking Webcam support... yes
checking Wiimote support... no
checking TrackIR support... yes
checking Facetracker support... yes
checking XPlane plugin... no
checking Mickey... yes
checking Wine plugin... no
checking OSC support... no

I assume this is a bug? Version is 0.99.20 or Linuxtrack-master branch.

[Vantskruv]

Have this problem aswell. I successfully compiled Linuxtrack, and got the tracking to work outside Wine. But I am unable to compile it with wine support.

...
checking for XPLMPlugin.h... no
checking 64bit winegcc... yes
checking 64bit wineg++... yes
checking 32bit winegcc... no
checking 32bit wineg++... no
checking for OPENCV... no
Opencl not present.
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/pathconfig.h
config.status: creating src/mac/Makefile
config.status: creating src/mac/Info.plist
config.status: creating src/osc_server_mac/Makefile
config.status: creating src/osc_server_mac/OscServer-Info.plist
config.status: creating src/local_config.h
config.status: creating src/qt_gui/ltr_gui.pro
config.status: creating src/wii_server/wii_server.pro
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/Makefile
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/client/Makefile
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/ft_client/Makefile
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/controller/Makefile
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/tester/Makefile
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/ft_tester/Makefile
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/tester/npview.rc
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/ft_tester/fttester.rc
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/views/Makefile
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/ltr_wine64.nsi
config.status: creating src/wine_bridge/ltr_wine.nsi
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating src/linuxtrack.pc
config.status: creating src/mickey/mickey.pro
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing libtool commands
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-wine64
configure: ===============================================================
configure: === Summary ===
configure: ===============================================================
checking Webcam support... yes
checking Wiimote support... no
checking TrackIR support... yes
checking Facetracker support... no
checking XPlane plugin... no
checking Mickey... yes
checking Wine plugin... no
checking OSC support... yes

It seems the configure detects Wine64 development libraries, but not the Wine32 libraries.

I am running EndeavourOS, and the wine folders looks like this:
$ ls /usr/lib32/wine/
i386-unix i386-windows
$ ls /usr/lib/wine/
x86_64-unix x86_64-windows
$ ls /usr/lib64/wine/
x86_64-unix x86_64-windows

Trying to understand how to editing the configure.ac, as I have a feeling the culprit is from there, but that is over my knowledge.

Hence if running the command:
$ ./configure --with-wine64-libs=/usr/lib/wine
or
$ ./configure --with-wine64-libs=/usr/lib64/wine

I get this as output:
..
checking 64bit winegcc... no
checking 64bit wineg++... no
checking 32bit winegcc... yes
checking 32bit wineg++... yes
...

If running:
$ ./configure --with-wine-libs=/usr/lib/wine
or
$ ./configure --with-wine-libs=/usr/lib32/wine

I get this as output:

checking 64bit winegcc... yes
checking 64bit wineg++... yes
checking 32bit winegcc... no
checking 32bit wineg++... no

I got opposite results.
Combining the commands --with-wine-libs and --with-wine64-libs always results in:
checking 64bit winegcc... yes
checking 64bit wineg++... yes
checking 32bit winegcc... no
checking 32bit wineg++... no

[Vantskruv]

Running the configure with "-L" command i.e:
$ ./configure --with-wine-libs=-L/usr/lib/wine

solved it for me.

Though I got some more compiling errors when compiling the wine-bridge sources, which I very sinfully fixed.
Hence, I got errors of undefined call to variable DLL_WINE_PREATTACH, which I manually defined in the source files which required that variable.
#define DLL_WINE_PREATTACH 8
I am not sure if the number 8 is the right one. 🗡️

Also, I got problems with some of the rest.h and rest.c files, which I replaced with the client/rest.h and client/rest.c files.

So, now I got Linuxtrack to work with Wine-support, though, I am back step 1 now, unable to install TrackIR firmwware:
"
There was an error when extracting
the firmware, will try the analysis
just in case...Please see the log for more details.
"
linuxtrack03.log

[Vantskruv]

An update.
I successfully extracted the TrackIR firmware by fixing a bug which crashed the application, see this pull request:
#201

Though I need to do it with the unpacked option (running the installer still fails).

I got almost everything working, but LinuxTrack fails to install the vc60redist when clicking "Install Linuxtrack-Wine support" in the Misc-tab.

I have manually installed the mfc42 libraries, both in system32 and syswow64 folders.
I have manually installed the linuxtrack-wine.exe (which can be found in the src/wine_bridge/ folder).

Running check_data.exe complains with the message "Failed to create symlink to TIRVies.dll!"
Also it complains with the message "Failed to create symlink to mfc42u.dll!"

Despite above messages, TrackIR seems to work fine with the tester applications.

But I still cannot get it to work with Star Citizen. Is this the dead-end?

[fwfa123]

@xman111111 I am working to upload the code to work on modern OS and I have released an appimage that may help...but it needs testing and comments. This is a work in progress, I plan to continue to add features and improve compatibility .
https://github.com/fwfa123/linuxtrackx-ir