DosBox only

[madoar]

@qparis is it possible to build only DosBox (without wine) using winebuild?

[qparis]

Theoritically, yes we can. However, it's starting to be a little weird to call it wine, isn't it?

[madoar]

Yes, but do we want to limit this tool only to wine?
The issue why I'm asking:
I have a dos application for which I would like to write a Phoenicis script, the issue is that I need dosbox.
Therefore it would be nice if we could also build DosBox.
In addition I think it would make for a nice second type of engine for Phoenicis.

[qparis]

You are correct.
Concerning your dos application, you have two possibilities:
1 - use a dos support wine build until we support another solution
2 - create a new engine

[madoar]

What exactly do you mean by 2?
When providing a new engine for Phoenicis we need to do two tasks:

1. Providing the engine in a downloadable and executable form (e.g. as a binary)
2. Providing an engine implementation in the Phoenicis script repository, which then makes use of the downloaded engine binary

I think I'm able to do task two (I never implemented an engine implementation for Phoenicis before), but I don't think I can do task one.

[qparis]

I can provide the task one, no problem

[qparis]

I was just saying that concerning your app, you may want to simply use wine dosbox_support

[madoar]

Yes I can do that for now.

The issue with using wine_dosbox_support in my case is, that it comes with all the wine "overhead" that isn't required.
Therefore I would prefer a dosbox engine without wine longterm.

[plata]

You could already create the DOS engine and use wine_dosbox_support. Then, later on, you only switch the source. I'm pretty sure you will find some places in Phoenicis which must be changed (e.g. container info page).

[madoar]

@plata do you know if our engines tab would work with multiple kinds of engines, or would it throw some exception if we provide multiple engine types?

[plata]

In theory it should simply show multiple categories but I don't know if that's really working.