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[X-Seti]

Hello,

I have been asked many times how to install windows applications onto Ubuntu / other distros of Linux.

I have decided to post how to install Game Maker 8.1.


1. To install the latest wine. (http://www.winehq.org/)

Open Synaptic Package manager and select Repositories from the menu.

This brings up Software Sources - Select Other Software, add the PPA Repository key.

ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

2. Open the terminal and make sure you remove the old version of wine if it's installed already.

sudo apt-get purge wine && sudo apt-get remove wine && sudo apt-get update

Otherwise just type:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine

3. winetricks comes with the new version of wine so this is what you need to install.

In the terminal type:

winetricks dlls

New window select the following:

comctl32
comdlg32ocx
d3dx10
d3dx9_39
d3dx9_40
dinput8
directplay
dotnet20
ie8
mfc42
mono210
riched30
msscript
wsh56js
msxml4
vcrun6sp6
wmp10

Now there are some extra dlls installed these can be useful to install a whole range of other apps like winamp5.

4. Now install GameMaker-Installer-8.1.exe

You may need to change the file permissions first for the exe.

Edited by X-Seti, 17 July 2011 - 04:44 PM.

[fenyxofshadows]

This helps soooo much! The only reason I switched from Ubuntu to Windows 7 was because of the not-GM8.x-ness, so if I ever get stuck, now I have something to go back to .

Bookmarked and +1'd.

[ChaosWormz]

Gm game tend to be very slow on Wine, I would advise using virtual box instead

Edited by ChaosWormz, 19 July 2011 - 10:14 PM.

[borut]

is it working completly bugfree?
and compiled games are working?

Edited by borut, 27 November 2011 - 09:20 PM.

[nightmare]

is it working completly bugfree?
and compiled games are working?

I don't think it will be bug free. The Windows version of Game Maker (I think) purely uses DirectX for rendering. On linux this would need to be done either via converting to OpenGL calls or just running in software mode. Most likely there will be a few small glitches while running games and possibly speed issues. But GM should largely work fine, but you may encounter some issues in future.

Not tried it on my Linux install since GM6.x though (I use Debian.). There were a few problems will fullscreen mode but I will see if there are when I install GM8.1 there/

Edited by nightmare, 28 November 2011 - 01:20 AM.

[fenyxofshadows]

It is mostly, along with the compiled games, as long as you first install DirectX 9 (you can and should do this in Wine anyway, Winetricks is a nice program to have), mono to emulate .NET (DO NOT install the real .NET, the installer itself is buggy even in Windows), and also Internet Explorer 6+ (for the news and registration).

However, it is slow, and sound does not work properly.

Here's a screeny of it working on 11.10:
http://dl.dropbox.co...733/gmlinux.png

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks   
sh winetricks ie8 
sh winetricks directmusic   
sh winetricks dsound   
sh winetricks d3dx9   
sh winetricks mono210

Edited by fenyxofshadows, 28 November 2011 - 03:21 AM.

[HayManMarc]

Last time I tried GameMaker on Ubuntu was a couple of years ago. I remember no sound and inability to save scripts. Also, I had to make sure I had the correct font installed to read the GameMaker installer. Like feny.. said about this time, it was slow then too. So, it doesn't seem like much is different or changed. Until some wine guru can build a GameMaker-specific workaround (or YoYoGames decides to make a linux version (*cough* - yeah, nice dream - *cough cough*), I think this is gonna be as good as it gets for linux users, unfortunately.

Too bad, because linux is SO MUCH cleaner and uncluttered than windows.

[joekluse]

I just tried to install gamemaker onto ubuntu using your instructions. In winetricks dlls, I don't have an option for d3dx9_40. I do have d3dx9_42 and d3dx9_43, should I install one of these instead? Everything else seems to install correctly, but when I start gamemaker, the windows apprear for a few seconds, then disappear. I get the following in the terminal window:

Unhandled exception: unimplemented function msvcrt.dll._localtime64 called in 32-bit code (0x7bc4bba0).
Register dump:
...

Any ideas? Thanks.

Hello,

I have been asked many times how to install windows applications onto Ubuntu / other distros of Linux.

I have decided to post how to install Game Maker 8.1.


1. To install the latest wine. (http://www.winehq.org/)

Open Synaptic Package manager and select Repositories from the menu.

This brings up Software Sources - Select Other Software, add the PPA Repository key.

ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

2. Open the terminal and make sure you remove the old version of wine if it's installed already.

sudo apt-get purge wine && sudo apt-get remove wine && sudo apt-get update

Otherwise just type:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine

3. winetricks comes with the new version of wine so this is what you need to install.

In the terminal type:

winetricks dlls

New window select the following:

comctl32
comdlg32ocx
d3dx10
d3dx9_39
d3dx9_40
dinput8
directplay
dotnet20
ie8
mfc42
mono210
riched30
msscript
wsh56js
msxml4
vcrun6sp6
wmp10

Now there are some extra dlls installed these can be useful to install a whole range of other apps like winamp5.

4. Now install GameMaker-Installer-8.1.exe

You may need to change the file permissions first for the exe.

[epicpiedude]

@joekluse
I just used the d3dx9_42 and it works fine.