We know that WOW’s PC client software is only supported Windows. To the Linux users like me, one of the way to play this game is to install wine which can run Windows version software under a Linux environment. That’s easy to make it cause Ubuntu has built it easy to install. But I countered another problem, the Chinese character and input method support…

After search on Google, I found that the already built version wine-cn haven’t released and I have to “hack” it by myself.
The job I have to do:

• 1 download the source ball of wine
• 2 patch the source file with Chinese charset support
• 3 prepare the environment of building wine on 64-bit platform
• 4 compile and install wine
• 5 fix the Chinese character display by adding “gdi32.dll.so”
• 6 Download and Install WOW~

1  go to http://www.winehq.org/site/download to download the wine source ball

2 extract the file and patch with the “wine_charset.patch”

cd wine-1.0
patch -p1 < wine_charset.patch

3 Run this in Shell to prepare:(Ubuntu 9.04 only)

sudo apt-get build-dep wine

4 Configure, make, and install:

CC=”gcc-4.3 -m32″ LDFLAGS=”-L/lib32 -L/usr/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib32″ ./configure -v

make

make instal

To compile 14.9MB source ball is a time wasting job.

5 Fetch the gdi32.dll.so and copy to the wine

sudo cp gdi32.dll.so /usr/lib/wine/

6 Install and Run WOW just like in Windows~

Today when I watching the War 3 game videos on the tudou.com. A new word was heard during the waiting time. It said someone is AFK, then they had to set up the game again.

I was puzzle about this new word and search it through google

Oh~ I see. AFK is brought from WOW (World of Warcraft). And now it becomes very popular that we can say “I have got a call, AFK for a moment”