Can I use Wine in a snap?

MarisaG · March 15, 2023, 5:53am

I’m wanting to put some opensource apps into the store that use Wine. Anyone have any tips on doing that? Sample snapcraft.yaml?

SamAlex · March 15, 2023, 6:29am

Sure you can check this out --:

github.com

mmtrt/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml

name: notepad-plus-plus
title: Notepad++ (WINE)
summary: notepad-plus-plus is a free source code editor.
description: |
 Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, notepad-plus-plus is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, notepad-plus-plus is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
adopt-info: notepad-plus-plus

confinement: strict
grade: stable
architectures:
  - build-on: amd64
  - build-on: i386
base: core20
compression: lzo

plugs:
  wine-runtime-c20:
    interface: content
    target: $SNAP/wine-runtime
    default-provider: wine-platform-runtime-core20

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MarisaG · March 15, 2023, 6:47am

Thanks! I’ll give that a go!

DiogoConstantino · March 15, 2023, 11:51am

The snapcrafters have created some tools to help ship windows applications has snaps, check out sommelier.

There’s also a demo that you can check here.