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mikeym

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 56

Getting development versions of packages

Hi there,

I'm still quite new to Arch though I've been using linux for longer than I'd care to think, and I'm enjoying it a lot. So I'm trying to compile Wine with a patch to help with some of the issues on Source games. This is slightly complicated by the fact that I'm on a 64 bit system. So I've set myself up a brand spanking new chroot to a 32 bit arch system and I've just run:

pacman -S base-devel

But I don't know how Arch stores it's development packages (i.e. the ones with headers to compile against). So I don't know how to get what I need to compile Wine.

Hopefully quite an easy question, complications aside.

egan

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From: Mountain View, CA

Registered: 2009-08-17

Posts: 273

Re: Getting development versions of packages

Standard libraries will be included with base-devel. Obviously non-standard ones must be installed. Thanks to the Arch Build System (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS), finding out which libraries you need for build and runtime is automatic. You'll find it is surprisingly easy.

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mikeym

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 56

Re: Getting development versions of packages

Thanks, from what I've read as well I understand that the headers are installed as part of the base packages. I don't really need the base packages for all of these things but I suppose I'll just have to install them as well.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Getting development versions of packages

We generally assume that both base and base-devel are installed for packaging.  So it is best to create a chroot containing both these groups.

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