Help with Wine on Linux

Can anyone please post thier Wine setup. I have used linux for many years, don't know how to use Wine to setup Zorro

Here is the thread:
https://opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=468606#Post468606

Thanks Andrew

Andrew, I went thru the thread there is nothing related to the setup. I have wine already installed for Navicat but I don't know what I need for Zorro

I use Linux, but I don't use Wine.

I keep all native binaries in their native environments. That is to say I only use Zorro on Windows.

I didn't really need to do anything special to install Zorro using Wine (on MacOS). Just install Wine and then run the Zorro installer using Wine. However, as you can see in the thread Andrew linked, it doesn't seem to work properly. You get different results when backtesting so I abandoned Wine. (the differences were quite drastic... apparently Wine somehow processes dates differently so candles aren't being read properly).

If you continue with it, do test it on both Windows and Linux extensively and compare the results to make sure they are equal.

Here's a way to test if the reason of the difference are issues of Wine with the COLEDateTime class:

Run a backtest under Windows and Wine and compare the timestamps in the log. Then modify the TickFix setting on the Wine Zorro version, add or subtract a few seconds, and run the test again. If you get a setting that produces the same results as under Windows, please let me know. I can then forward this to the developers for implementing an own time class and making Zorro Wine-compatible.

@JCL - I don't have any Windows boxes here. I don't want to take any chance on problems. More importantly any problems that can't been seen or that are not obvious like data skewing because the OLE classes are slightly handled differently.

I almost wanted to take you up on comparing the TickFix on both platforms.

It is easier to keep a older computer running Windows and Zorro and Remote Desktop into the box from Linux, the remote desktop software for linux is amazing.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING.

My suggestion was addressed to Kankan, who already did that, only without TickFix. I want to avoid opening a new front. Zorro has only 4 developers, and none of us is using Linux.

But if there is common interest in running Zorro under Linux, of more than 2 people, I'll put Wine compatibility tests on the to do list.

Ok, I didn't know that you were suggesting someone else. I will keep on the lookout for the test should they get done.

Hello, I'm not a developer but, as user, I would be interested in a fully working Zorro under Linux.

My 2 cents as new Zorro user. I run a linux distro (Xubuntu) on my laptop. Metatrader 4 as trading platform, is running quite good under wine on this machine.
I have also available a linux Ubuntu VPS server on which I decided to install both Metatrader4 and Zorro 2.09. They are apparently working well (not considering the above described issue on strategies testing). To further test if there is any advantage on running this combo on a Linux VPS over a Windows VPS, I opened a Winserver 2012 VPS (same provider and similar hardware). What I see for now is that on the Linux VPS the combo is working much smoother.
So in my opinion worth for sure to fix/develop a fully working wine version of Zorro, also considering that to run a Linux VPS is much cheaper than a Windows one.
What I noticed under linux are a couple of bugs. 1) Pressing the help button just a white page appear (even if I installed an additional software for linux as suggested from someone else in this or other thread). 2) When the expert advisor for metatrader is running, the "smiling face" on the top right of the Metatrader chart, confirming that's running good, is not visible (there is just a empty little square). I suggest to change the smile with a simply "OK" or "Running" or whatever...

Sorry for the late response. I was travelling.
I responded in the original WIne thread to keep things together:
https://opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=477001#Post477001