MT4 on Suse 11.0 Linux has anybody managed it?

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Hi

You all seem to get MT4 working on Linux but I can't. Has Anybody done it under SUSE 11.0. I installed a PCB layout prog and that works fine but MT4 gives a grey error screen of a critical windows error. I don't know where to start to fix it.

Thanks

 
I can't believe nobody is using MT4 under linux.
 

This is for that wine emulator

'Running MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal on Linux-Desktop '

 

Hi

Yes that was the article that made me give it a go because it looked straight forward and seemed to give ideas on the common errors that might occur. Unfortunately the problem I have is not mentioned and when I searched several computers to find the required dll file I found 3 of the same size but all of different origins. I was hoping someone might have accomplished it on SUSE because it is one of the biggest so I would at least know it can be done.

Thanks

 

R

Try here http://www.metatrader4.com/search/?keyword=linux&x=21&y=14

They seem to have done more of this over there

FWIW

-BB-

 

Hi BB

Thanks, I took a look but there were more questions than answers. I have searched the net many times and come up empty but I thought I would give it another go. Low and behold I found some suff under applications in WINE here

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2893&iTestingId=22068

There are plenty more things for me to try now.

Thanks for your help.

 

Did you see Tatyana's post at the MetaTrader4.com forum? He says it's a no go unless you try a virtual machine. I'm disappointed --- I was thinking of going the Linux route myself.


https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/45713


raft

 

Hi Raft

Yes you have to use wine and if you check out the link I gave it is on the WINE HQ as a listed application. A number of people have it working and say it is faster. I think in a few years MT will join the other 80% of the world on LINUX. America is a shrinking part of the world now. I shall post any progress I have or not maybe.

 
Ruptor:

Hi Raft

Yes you have to use wine and if you check out the link I gave it is on the WINE HQ as a listed application......

Thanks for the reply. I'm definately interested in hearing of your progress. I did check the WINE HQ site briefly, but the info is too advanced for me at this time and then I saw Tatyana's post. I used a virtual machine a couple years ago when I switched from XP to Vista and some of my software would not run on Vista at that time. I give the VM notion 3 cows out of 5. It works --- but not great. And, I think reliability is very important in automated trading, therefore I have no interest in running a VM on Linux if that is what is required.

 

Wine works a treat. Not an issue really. It can happen that issues due to fonts, buttons and the usually used hot key combos.

for the heck of it, below are some links I found tucked away on the HD.

http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/faq/index.html

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

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http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

http://www.kegel.com/

http://von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2157;tips=1 MetaTrader 4

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ wine emulation s/w

http://forums.fxservice.com/showthread.php?t=396&highlight=wine Running Meta Trader 4 Terminal on OS Linux

http://maketecheasier.com/linux-howto-miss-your-windows-application-try-wine/2007/12/15 Linux How To: Installing Windows Application Under Wine - Make Tech Easier

http://forum.alpari.co.uk/thread2035.html This HOW TO will allow you to use you favorite software on Linux.

http://www.ircforex.com/linux/343-install-metatrader-4-linux

http://www.fxaddict.com/community/showthread.php?t=89&page=2 MetaTrader 4 working under Linux! Here is a quick howto :) - Page 2 - Forum Forum

http://www.fxaddict.com/community/showthread.php?t=89&page=1 Linux MT MetaTrader Wine turn off unused disks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

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http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2893&iTestingId=28336

http://appdb.winehq.org/index.php

http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/config-wine-main

http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index#WHAT-IS-WINE-AND-WHAT-IS-IT-SUPPOSED-TO

http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-release/wine-10-rc1-released.html

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6911

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4304

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my last play with linux was on laptop - wireless was a nightmare. 3 weeks later I capitulated and shoved on win xp home. The drivers for many h/w items are licensed for win use.. The Wine stuff [when I did it last year anyway] needs win libs, fonts, drivers ..., .... But there you go - worth a play!

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I echo raft, would be interesting to see some feedback rea: 'final' results, at least...

Good luck Ruptor and co. :)

 

Hi Guys

Thanks for the list of linux info FBJ I shall keep it for reference. I also have the bother with a wireless connection on my laptop and I have put it on the back burner for now while I see if MT4 can run on linux. Just connected a wire for now:)

I have made some progress and the first pointer I can give is make the linux computer a dual boot system because it makes transfering the files from Windows XP and the SUSE Linux system much easier. The Linux system can read the files directly from the windows directories for copying to WINE. The best way to set up the dual boot system is to install Windows XP first on say half the disk then install Linux afterwards on the rest of the disk. It is very easy because the Linux handles everything for you.

My biggest problem is my lack of knowledge of Linux even though 2 years ago I was doing embedded software development on SUSE Linux I have forgotten most of it so had to pick it up again. Prior to this post I had run Wine on the MT4 and it installed successfully but when run would crash with a fatal grey screen application fault. The WINEHQ site posts said it needed some DLLs so I copied these across. Although this sounds simple, to the uninitiated Linux user like me it was a big merry go round. The suggestion on the WINE site was to use a third party tool to copy the files so I loaded WineXS a GUI for wine and found the file selection and copying part was not implemented so that was a waste of time. After many hours and not a lot of hair left I figured out what WINE does and knowing this everything else became simple.

Wine is not really a virtual machine or even an emulator it is just a translator that converts requests from windows programs to Linux format that is why it is only 3 MBytes in size. Wine creates a windows file system as a hidden structure under .WINE\ so once I realised this I turned on the view hidden files switch then it was just a simple matter of transferring the files from my Windows partition using the Dolphin file manager.

I copied all these DLLs from Windows XP to Wine Windows\system32. Although another expert on wineHQ said they were not all required I copied the lot to make sure.

   dwmapi.dll
   imm32.dll
   jscript.dll
   lz32.dll
   mfc40.dll
   mfc42.dll
   midimap.dll
   msacm.dll
   msacm32.dll
   msimg32.dll
   t2embed.dll

Then I copied all the font files in windows\fonts to wine windows \fonts. If you don't copy the fonts across then the spaces in MetaEditor are black instead of white
and it makes it unusable.

I clicked the icon for alpari that is on my Linux desktop and it started. The only visual problem is the icons in navigator are on a black background but that is minor and
serves to remind me I'm in MT4 on Linux.
Instead of using the demo that installed I copied the whole of my Alpari Live setup from windows over the the Linux installation just like I do when I set up another windows 
based computer to that all my custom indicators and EAs come with it and all the server settings. Then the only thing to do is put the password in and it connects to the broker. 
MetaEditor runs and compiles a file and the MT4 terminal appears to function and connects to the broker but the back tester does not get the history so it doesn't run yet.
I shall try and sort out the tester problem and post the solution later but on the whole once you click the MT4 icon you would never know you were in Linux.
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