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  • #1
  • First Post: Nov 22, 2006 7:10pm Nov 22, 2006 7:10pm
Many Many thanks at jafar00 for this mini howto.

http://www.fxaddict.com/community/showthread.php?t=89

I add only one what, the DLL lacking can be downloaded from

http://dlldump.com

  • #2
  • Nov 26, 2006 6:22pm Nov 26, 2006 6:22pm
thanks for the great info!!!
  • #3
  • Nov 26, 2006 6:43pm Nov 26, 2006 6:43pm
Thanks for the info, how long have you been using MT4 under Linux? Also, another new site to add to my list....
  • #4
  • Nov 26, 2006 11:39pm Nov 26, 2006 11:39pm
i've been using it for one year and no problems to report. even the code editor and context help is working.

actually this is a huge milestone for the ordinary desktop user who trades since it means there is no real reason to pay for windows or indeed vista when it comes out. since so many brokers use mt4 as their 3rd party chart and execution platform.

sadly most people will still follow the microsoft herd...
  • #5
  • Nov 27, 2006 4:08am Nov 27, 2006 4:08am
Quoting Isotonic
i've been using it for one year and no problems to report. even the code editor and context help is working.

actually this is a huge milestone for the ordinary desktop user who trades since it means there is no real reason to pay for windows or indeed vista when it comes out. since so many brokers use mt4 as their 3rd party chart and execution platform.

sadly most people will still follow the microsoft herd...
Thanks for the info. I guess you need less RAM than on Windows, but how much in order for it to run properly ?
  • #6
  • Nov 27, 2006 5:25am Nov 27, 2006 5:25am
Winetools does not support the last versions of wine, and therefore the font it must put them in the /home/.wine/c/windows/fonts folder, by hand.
At the moment i dont know which are the fonts necessary, therefore if you have the possibility to copy them from windows copied all the.
  • #7
  • Nov 27, 2006 6:35am Nov 27, 2006 6:35am
Also, can you install multiple instances? by just changing the installation directory each time you reinstall?

very cool...

Mk
  • #8
  • Nov 27, 2006 9:16am Nov 27, 2006 9:16am
I had not realized you could run win32 programs on linux prior to seeing this thread. So I decided to install linux in virtual PC to see if it would be good to run my EAs, linux I mean - not virtual PC w/linux - that is just a test.

I tried to get SUSE but it was impossible to download even the torrent file. So I tried Ubuntu, which didn't work. But then I tried Ubuntu 6.06 (an old version) and it installed in VPC.

Ubuntu seems to be a much more straightforward install than linux OSes I've tried in the past... like RedHat, Gentoo, etc. Also there is no weird mouse cursor pointing in the wrong direction with it, I guess maybe only KDE had that problem?

I ran winetools with the latest release of wine (I think). Actually how do I find out what version I have of wine? I installed a bunch of crap including IE from winetools and all the fonts.

Although the EA smiley face doesn't work, it shows a J instead of the smiley. So I'm not sure if I installed that properly.

And the MetaEditor doesn't run, it crashes with a big exception dump.

I think winetools was warning about the wine release being too new, and thus untested. Maybe I should try it with an older wine version.

I think it doesn't matter what flavour of Linux I run, does it? Could someone tell me if Ubuntu itself could possibly be the problem... or is it more likely how I installed wine, winetools, etc.?
  • #9
  • Nov 27, 2006 9:28am Nov 27, 2006 9:28am
for ubuntu see here:

http://ftp.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/di...n/ch03s04.html

Quoting kingforex
Thanks for the info. I guess you need less RAM than on Windows, but how much in order for it to run properly ?
  • #10
  • Nov 27, 2006 9:33am Nov 27, 2006 9:33am
type in "wine --version". i'm on 0.9.23. i've never had any problems with wine on ubuntu from 5.10 onwards.

wine should be available from the synaptic package manager. or type "sudo apt-get install wine". you might want to run automatix2 to install wine and a whole load of other stuff for ubuntu.

i think by now ubuntu is probably the biggest linux distro around and perhaps the easiest to install. plus the huge support you get on the forum.

UBUNTU ROCKS!!!

Quoting ycomp
I had not realized you could run win32 programs on linux prior to seeing this thread. So I decided to install linux in virtual PC to see if it would be good to run my EAs, linux I mean - not virtual PC w/linux - that is just a test.

I tried to get SUSE but it was impossible to download even the torrent file. So I tried Ubuntu, which didn't work. But then I tried Ubuntu 6.06 (an old version) and it installed in VPC.

Ubuntu seems to be a much more straightforward install than linux OSes I've tried in the past... like RedHat, Gentoo, etc. Also there is no weird mouse cursor pointing in the wrong direction with it, I guess maybe only KDE had that problem?

I ran winetools with the latest release of wine (I think). Actually how do I find out what version I have of wine? I installed a bunch of crap including IE from winetools and all the fonts.

Although the EA smiley face doesn't work, it shows a J instead of the smiley. So I'm not sure if I installed that properly.

And the MetaEditor doesn't run, it crashes with a big exception dump.

I think winetools was warning about the wine release being too new, and thus untested. Maybe I should try it with an older wine version.

I think it doesn't matter what flavour of Linux I run, does it? Could someone tell me if Ubuntu itself could possibly be the problem... or is it more likely how I installed wine, winetools, etc.?
  • #11
  • Nov 27, 2006 9:35am Nov 27, 2006 9:35am
cool! you gave me an idea to solve the missing arrows on mt under linux. and it worked a treat!

thanx dude!

Quoting ettino
Winetools does not support the last versions of wine, and therefore the font it must put them in the /home/.wine/c/windows/fonts folder, by hand.
At the moment i dont know which are the fonts necessary, therefore if you have the possibility to copy them from windows copied all the.
  • #12
  • Nov 27, 2006 9:49am Nov 27, 2006 9:49am
Isotonic, did you install MT4 without using Winetools?

If you had to use Winetools, what exactly did you install from it? I installed a bunch of crap. I am testing in another clean VPC window and I want to install only the minimum of the windows programs from winetools required.
  • #13
  • Nov 27, 2006 11:32am Nov 27, 2006 11:32am
Just curious, IIRC Mac OSX is a linus variant. Does anyone know if the Linux version of MetaTrader run under OSX?
  • #14
  • Edited 8:04pm Nov 27, 2006 5:11pm | Edited 8:04pm
Quoting njfx
Just curious, IIRC Mac OSX is a linus variant. Does anyone know if the Linux version of MetaTrader run under OSX?
I have no idea how wine works but I suspect that since it is not an emulator, that it requires a Intel x86 processor. So I don't know if it will work on Mac Intels but I suspect it definitely won't work on Mac PowerPCs.

note: There is no Linux version of MetaTrader, it is a Windows version running on Linux under wine. On OSX you can probably run it in Windows in an emulator there.
  • #15
  • Nov 27, 2006 5:49pm Nov 27, 2006 5:49pm
ok, this time I decided to follow advice from this thread. So I installed it like this:

- fresh install of Ubuntu on Virtual PC for testing
- wine latest version
- no winetools (installed it but since it failed to run, I didn't use it)

- copied all fonts from windows\fonts on my XP PC to respective folder under home (listed in a previous message above) in ubuntu
- copied mfc40.dll and mfc42.dll from dlldump.com to /home/.../.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

works better this time:
- since we are using real windows fonts, not fonts from winetools, the smileys for the EA are displayed correctly

- metaeditor doesn't crash this time. Instead it asks to install Wine Gecko to display Html files. So I clicked yes.

metaeditor compiles but it has some quirks with the help. no scrollbars in toolbox help. And the popup help is blank. I guess if Internet Explorer is installed with winetools, that would fix this.

and the buttons are all squished together in the toolbox.

what still doesn't work:
- didn't create linux equivalent of desktop shortcuts during install. But it didn't work for me with winetools either before. I just heard that someone managed to get it to do this before. But no big deal.
  • #16
  • Nov 27, 2006 11:30pm Nov 27, 2006 11:30pm
you nailed it brother!

yes not everything works. i noticed some of the problems you have. but thats the price you pay for emulation.

still its good enough for my usage...
  • #17
  • Dec 3, 2006 11:17am Dec 3, 2006 11:17am
just got ubuntu 6.10 installed on my new shiny sony vaio and ubuntu seems to work just fine on it, so that's good.

Unfortunately, after installing MT4, I discovered I couldn't modify any inputs of EAs or Custom Indicators.

So I tested it on my 2 virtual pc ubuntu installations and same thing.

Does anyone running MT4 on linux have the ability to modify inputs of EAs / Custom Indicators?

Not sure what I could be doing wrong.

Iso, you've been running it for a year so I assume you can modify these things right? How did you install your mt4 to get it working on linux?
  • #18
  • Dec 3, 2006 1:13pm Dec 3, 2006 1:13pm
I had same problem, can't change inputs in dialog boxes
Smile... Darwin loves you.
  • #19
  • Dec 3, 2006 1:17pm Dec 3, 2006 1:17pm
Quoting gpw797
I had same problem, can't change inputs in dialog boxes
guess you weren't able to resolve this?

If I can't get this to work, in order to use MT4 in linux I'll have to either set templates / profiles up on a windows PC and then copy it over or modify and recompile EAs/Indicators so that the new parameters I want are hardcoded as defaults in the EAs/Indicators.
  • #20
  • Dec 3, 2006 1:58pm Dec 3, 2006 1:58pm
Quoting ycomp
guess you weren't able to resolve this?

If I can't get this to work, in order to use MT4 in linux I'll have to either set templates / profiles up on a windows PC and then copy it over or modify and recompile EAs/Indicators so that the new parameters I want are hardcoded as defaults in the EAs/Indicators.
YComp,
it's not a drawback of running a simulation of a simulation is it?
I'm sure Iso would have noticed this and must not have this problem.

I have a spare box sitting around now and might resurrect my linux interest running MT4 as an EA 'server' LOL
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