How to compile without installing?

[G-Wiz]

Hi, could someone tell me how to compile an old version of wine without installing it. I just need a custom wine executable for lutris.

Here are the files:

wine-1.4-rc4/dlls
wine-1.4-rc4/documentation
wine-1.4-rc4/fonts
wine-1.4-rc4/include
/wine-1.4-rc4/libs
/wine-1.4-rc4/loader
/wine-1.4-rc4/po
/wine-1.4-rc4/programs
/wine-1.4-rc4/server
/wine-1.4-rc4/tools
/wine-1.4-rc4/.gitignore
/wine-1.4-rc4/aclocal.m4
/wine-1.4-rc4/ANNOUNCE
/wine-1.4-rc4/AUTHORS
/wine-1.4-rc4/configure
/wine-1.4-rc4/configure.ac
/wine-1.4-rc4/COPYING.LIB
/wine-1.4-rc4/LICENSE
/wine-1.4-rc4/LICENSE.OLD
/wine-1.4-rc4/Make.rules.in
/wine-1.4-rc4/Make.vars.in
/wine-1.4-rc4/Makefile.in
/wine-1.4-rc4/Maketest.rules.in
/wine-1.4-rc4/README
/wine-1.4-rc4/VERSION

There is a custom script in the tools folder you're supposed to run, but that script also installs the program.

Any help/advice would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[dos2unix]

First you run configure

./configure --prefix=/some/path

This will take a few seconds

then you run make

make

nothing is installed yet, just compiled.

If you want to install it.

make install

 

[G-Wiz]

Thank you!

 

[gvisoc]

I was going to answer exactly that. The commong practice is to use .local as the prefix, so all your compiled tools end up in your home directory, free of conflicts with the rest of the system.

After running config --prefix=.local, using make install will install the tool under .local. Also not requiring sudo of course.

And, as a bonus, if you use any home directoy backup tool, you can restore an older compilation if updating one tool ends up breaking it.

 

[gvisoc]

Sorry I should have typed “~/.local” all across the previous post, that is

./configure --prefix=~/.local

Pardon my dust!

 

[G-Wiz]

Thank you for that info, I'll find much use for it.