Building Wine 2.9 Staging with Blizzard's Overwatch Support

Introduction

WEB Wayland is a Wine build that incorporates patches from the wine-wayland project. It is designed to run exclusively on Wayland display servers. WEB Wine builds are available in various flavors, including Vanilla, Staging, TkG, and Proton. This guide will focus on building Wine 2.9 Staging with support for Blizzard's Overwatch.

Prerequisites

Software Requirements

• GCC or Clang compiler
• Libpng development headers
• Libjpeg development headers
• Libtiff development headers
• Fontconfig development headers
• X11 development headers
• Wayland development headers
• libldap development headers
• libgpg-error development headers
• libxslt development headers
• libffi development headers
• libxml2 development headers
• libgnutls development headers

Hardware Requirements

A recent x86-64 processor with support for Wayland protocols.

Building Wine 2.9 Staging

Step 1: Download Wine Source Code

Download the Wine 2.9 Staging source code from the official Wine download server: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.9/

Extract the tarball and enter the extracted directory.

Step 2: Configure Wine

Run the following commands to configure Wine with Wayland support:

 ./configure --enable-wayland --enable-win64 --with-xcursor --with-xrandr 

Step 3: Compile and Install Wine

Make and install Wine:

 make -j$(nproc) sudo make install 

Testing Wine 2.9 Staging with Overwatch

Once Wine is installed, you can test it with Overwatch by following these steps:

1. Download the Overwatch installer.
2. Run the installer using Wine:

      wine Overwatch_Installer.exe   

3. Follow the installation instructions.
4. Once installed, run Overwatch using Wine:

      wine Overwatch.exe   

Conclusion

By following this guide, you have successfully built Wine 2.9 Staging with support for Blizzard's Overwatch. This will enable you to run Overwatch on your Wayland-based system.