Launch Nextion Editor 0.34 under Wine

Not so long ago, a great ITEAD product was released - the Nextion HMI screen. Many people know how to connect the screen to the microcontroller, for example, to the same arduino and display graphic information. If you try a little, you can add a resistive touch panel and you get a real touch device. The problem is only a small microcontroller speed and a small amount of RAM. There are a great number of arduino libraries for such solutions, some are not quite compatible with each other, and some are completely sharpened for a specific controller. This seriously complicates development and in some cases makes scaling impossible. It seems that at one point, the guys from ITEAD said “Stop tolerating it,” and launched a company to raise funds for a new generation of screens for embedded devices. The project was called Nextion. This screen is a device for displaying images and interacting with the graphical interface, but the pictures themselves and all the patterns are sewn directly onto the device as firmware. Such a screen communicates with a microcontroller via a UART and doesn’t load it properly, which allows you to allocate resources for the tasks of polling sensors, monitoring parameters in real time, in fact, what the microcontroller should do.
For programming, and it is better to say the development of the firmware, the Nextion Editor is available only under Windows. This saddens many people, since even at the fundraising stage, the developers promised to release a cross-platform editor or versions for Mac and Linux by the end of 2015. Apparently, something went wrong, since the Linux community has not yet seen the much-desired tool, and the developers feed on breakfast. As it turned out, it’s quite possible to launch an editor under Linux and the author will tell you with great pleasure how

Immediately it is necessary to make a reservation. This instruction can only be used by those who know what wine is and at least approximately represents how to work with it. Getting started.


You will need a fresh installed Wine. Ubuntu users can use the latest version of the PPA repository Wine-staging
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging 

Then you need to put the compatibility package

 sudo apt-get install wine-staging-amd64 

I never managed to properly assemble the prefix for launch via winetricks, but I managed to do it through PlayonLinux .
Therefore, we put it and we start.

Click on the "Install" button.



Select "Install the program that is not in the list" and click "Next"





Knock out "Install the program on a new virtual disk" and click "Next"



Choose an arbitrary name, for example, "Nextion" and click "Next"



Select "Install additional libraries" and click "Next"



Be sure to select "32 bit windows installation" and click "Next"



For some time, the prefix creation scripts will be processed and then the window for selecting the necessary components will open. We need to mark dotnet45 and click "Next" and after the installation is completed, stop installing the application by closing the window.



After all, you need to return to the initial stage and press the “Setup” button again, walking along the steps again, but this time choose “edit or update an existing application” and click “Next”.



We tick off “show virtual disks” and choose our own (I have Nextion).



This time, select "Configure Wine" and "Install additional libraries", click "Next"



Be sure to select “Windows XP”, click “OK” and go on.



We mark among the components “ie8” and again we go to the very last point, refusing to install the application.



Everything, perfix is ​​assembled, it can be found at

 /home/<username>/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/ 

You can use it right from here, or you can copy it to a folder with your prefixes.

Install the development environment still does not work, but you can use the unpacked version.
By the way, the author has already opened a ticket with a request to upload a zip archive in addition to the installer, but you can do the same , I think, this should speed up the appearance of the distribution kit =)

To launch personally, the author uses unfriendly q4wine by virtue of habit. You can use what you like with this parameter.

That's all, you can use the development environment under Linux. It seems everything compiles, but the author does not bear any responsibility for bugs and glitches.
It should turn out somehow .

PS If you are especially lazy and you are a fan of quick solutions, then you can use the already prepared prefix or a script and a ZIP archive with an unpacked installer . I hope that soon the ZIP package will appear on the site and you can add a complete TurnKey solution based on PlayOnLinux.

Enjoy using =)

UPD. The developers have given answers ready to publish zip archives with a distribution kit, starting with version 0.35. I give you my word that as soon as the new version comes out with the editor in the zip archive, I will finish the automatic script for PlayOnLinux and put it in a new article with new instructions.