broken lobby and hosting on wine (linux)

[Tarzan]

(for version 2.3)

i have linux (slackware) and i'm playing by the wine emulator.
after attempting to host the game, it displays error: "Unable to host: IPv4: Unknown error; IPv6: Unknown error"
and if I enter the lobby, it displays error "Connecting to the lobby has failed."

[MedO (smaxein)]

Apparently, wine doesn't like the new networking extension. You could try checking if the latest version of Wine fixes this, and then file a bug report with them if it doesn't.

Using GG2 with wine has always been problematic, at least until we switched to GM 8, which improved matters a bit iirc. Network problems in wine such as this one happened before as well (Remember this? "Unable to connect to self. Epic fail, dude." :D)

I could try using different switches for the Boost Asio library which is used for networking, so that it uses a different backend which might be better supported by wine, but that could cause unexpected new problems for everyone, not just wine users, so I'd prefer not to.

[MedO (smaxein)]

Setting this to incomplete while waiting for a response. AJF told be that it works for him with the current "unstable" version of wine, you might want to try installing that.

[alexander (thealen081)]

I am on System 7 and I have the same problem... "Connecting to the lobby has failed." and the hosting of the server is the same.

[Orpheon (alex-liebendorf)]

GG2 always worked for me on wine, both hosting and lobby. Wine versions 1.3/1.4, GG2 version anything after 2.2