Running LK8000 under WINE

This page was last updated on 11 October, 2010.

The procedure described below was tested using LK8000 1.23d and Wine 1.3.1

If you're not a Windows user you can still use LK8000-PC.exe and LK8000SIM-PC.exe by running them under WINE. The following description shows how to run them in a Linux installation and can probably be adapted for other installations, such as OS-X on an Intel Mac. It makes two assumptions:

• that you have previously installed XCSoar or LK8000 on a PNA which runs it off an SD card and so are familiar with the directory structure on the SD card.
• that you have used WINE enough to know its terminology and to understand how to install and run programs under it.

I further assume you'll run the PC versions within a directory that represents an SD card image: In other words the LK8000 components are installed in a directory called LK8000:

If your login directory is /home/gliding and the SD card image is at /home/gliding/XCSoar/lk8000:

• LK8000 requires its own WINE prefix, which I've called .wine_lk8000

• The contents of LK8000 are expected to be at .wine_lk8000/drive_c/users/gliding/My Documents/LK8000. where "My Documents" is a simlink pointing at $HOME (/home/gliding), i.e., LK8000 should be in $HOME. If it isn't, put a symlink in $HOME that points to it. In my case:

  cd $HOME; ln -s /home/gliding/XCSoar/lk8000/LK8000 LK8000

To run a program, set the wine prefix, cd to the SD drive root and run it:

cd
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_lk8000 wine LK8000/LK8000-PC.exe

or to run the simulator:

cd
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_lk8000 wine LK8000/LK8000SIM-PC.exe

If the program can't find the map, turnpoints, etc, setting $WINEDEBUG can help but be warned that the debug volume is huge. To do this, preceed the wine command by:

export WINEDEBUG=file

Notes on LK8000-PC.exe and LK8000SIM-PC.exe 1.23d

• On start up, when the LK8000 version screen appears with the message "Click on center screen to begin", you can't click on it because the mouse pointer does not appear on this screen. Instead, hit RETURN to continue. After that, pointing and clicking with the mouse is the same as tapping the PNA screen.
• The bottom info bar is shown vertically at the right side of the screen and can't be moved to the bottom of the screen or scrolled.