Wow and wine on ubuntu 9.04 64 bit

I find you quite frequently need to have a fresh development version of Wine to play world of warcraft on linux. So, these are the steps I followed:

• GitWine – sets you up with Wine’s latest development snapshot. Only section 2 applies for those of us who do not contribute.
• Building 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit (x86-64) system:
  • “Building Wine on Ubuntu / Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)” section worked for me. A plain “make” doesn’t work out of the box and the

sudo apt-get build-dep wine

is crucial.

After that, one may do

wine InstallWoW.exe

..from the account management download client page. Now, the wow login page will fail with a “runtime error” r6034. Thanks to Neckrippa at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=21723844202&sid=1 there is a fix;

Change the version number in

<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC80.CRT" version="8.0.50727.4053" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b"></assemblyIdentity>

in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest (wow install directory) with

version="8.0.50727.762"

Then login is ok, and the game is works well.