PT Server at Linux

@Sheen: Some variant of Wine is common place on most Unix systems. Even Macs have Bordaux. It's more effective than Microsoft Services for Unix. A closer analogy (doing the same thing in reverse) would be Cygwin. The big point is that it is useless for almost anything that uses the latest DirectX. Closed source technologies like that take time to reverse, and old DirectX (like PT) nobody can be bothered to put the effort in. XD

With the server, it may load DirectX but never uses it. So the fact that Wine can't support MS-SQL is the big problem.

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Originally Posted by Vormav

Cherokee look interesting and I might give it a try. It depends, if I can get deb repository with Cherokee packages. Too bad it can't run on windows.

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There are Windows builds of Cherokee but they are quite old, and no "current" build is working, as there is no Windows maintainer.

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Originally Posted by Vormav

I will have to stay with MySQL too, I can't find any free driver for SQLite. There might be one for PostgreSQL but syntax is different, SQLite have similar syntax but no free driver.

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Google served me this SQLite ODBC Driver for Windows x86 / x64, Linux and Mac as the first hit. :o It is free? (BSD-Style license, so may not be as free as we would like)

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The authors hereby grant permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and license this software and its documentation for any purpose, provided that existing copyright notices are retained in all copies and that this notice is included verbatim in any distributions.

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Seems fairly "free" to me.

Also... Yes, Deb (and derivatives like Ubuntu and Knoppix) is very popular, and with good reason, it's a solid platform which is easy enough to adapt to your desired purpose. It's still a little too "Windows" like in terms of "bloat" for my taste. :\

@SheenBR
Its quite stable. I'm using unstable version on unstable debian lol, PT server can work 24/7 without crashing. It can even run your old games that have problems running on new windows.

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Originally Posted by bobsobol

There are Windows builds of Cherokee but they are quite old, and no "current" build is working, as there is no Windows maintainer.

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This is only argument against. I would prefer to keep it cross-platform. Apache + PHP + MySQL + PT Server.
The reason for that would be debugging and development. IDA works OK under wine (there is even native version) but ollydbg don't.

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Originally Posted by bobsobol

Google served me this SQLite ODBC Driver for Windows x86 / x64, Linux and Mac as the first hit. :o It is free? (BSD-Style license, so may not be as free as we would like)Seems fairly "free" to me.

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Yes but this is ODBC, and I need OLEDB, it is a different type of provider. It does not require that you set up a DSN. I think oledb support was added around wine 1.3? Something like that. My first try was on 1.2? I tested DSN like connections on dlls and they don't work or work partly for login.

I'm happy with new free driver I'm using. Compared to not free one its actually showing me errors and not letting PT use bugged query. More fixes are needed but at same time I'm sure what was executed correctly in SQL/Clan.dll and what not.

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Originally Posted by bobsobol

Also... Yes, Deb (and derivatives like Ubuntu and Knoppix) is very popular, and with good reason, it's a solid platform which is easy enough to adapt to your desired purpose. It's still a little too "Windows" like in terms of "bloat" for my taste. :\

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In PT server case I'm looking more at already compiled soft. Compiling wine will require from your to install lot of useless soft and dev packages.

Debian SID have wine up to 1.5 and any soft I need I get with apt-get.

@OLEDB: Ahh, I see the problem now. The best advise I've seen is to use the OLEDB provider for ODBC. :\ I think that's just going to cause more problems, and SQLite isn't ideal for larger servers anyway.

@apt-get: Frugalware pacman has wine 1.6 pre-compiled. link I can't imagine what you may need that you can't find on pacman TBH. But Windows is about the only system I know of which doesn't have a decent single recommended repository manager for adding and removing software packages. Whether it's pacman, apt-get, portage, RPMs, AppStore, Tracker or Servant... there is usually a tool. There's even one for ReactOS. (the open source Windows clone) :lol:

1.6 is frugalware version (distribution version) not wine version XD


2. wine 1.2.3-3
Version: 1.6; Architecture: i686

3. wine-devel 1.3.37-1
Version: 1.6; Architecture: i686


There is no wine 1.6 yet. 1.5.2 is newest :)