Fun experiences using Wine in Docker (part 2)

Posted on Thu 14 April 2016 in blog

After the last post about running Wine in Docker, it was time to try and actually use the image to perform a build.

The first time I tried, the build crashed due to some sort of exception. It turns out the following sequence of events was to blame:

NMAKE, running …

Fun experiences using Wine in Docker

Posted on Wed 13 April 2016 in blog

Background

I sometimes work with a legacy codebase that targets both Windows and Linux; the build system is GNU Make-based, and builds on Linux. For the Windows components, the build system invokes NMAKE, using Wine. Yes, it's messy; yes I want to replace it; but no there's no time budgeted …