I was surprised to find out there's a 64-bit version of Warband for Linux and Mac, but I'd guess you were aware and that it's not useful/salvageable in any way for developing 64-bit Windows WSE?
No idea how that stuff works, thought I'd mention it on the off chance I guessed wrong. It's a sad waste really, they never fixed all the bugs Linux/Mac Warband has and WSE is better than it in every way (except 32-bit). So everyone on Linux uses WSE.
Thank you a lot for this and your continued work and support on it, by the way. It's given me many hours of joy and let me play Warband again. I gave up on it until I heard of WSE, since Linux Warband is a mess and Windows Warband was giving me other issues like random CTDs, but WSE works flawlessly.
Hey I am loving WSE2 and I'm glad it is created, but I plan on swapping to linux and I saw that people got it to work via bottles but I would like to know how to perform it. And also I was curious if you lose on features compared to normally running it on windows. Thanks a bunch and if you don't want to crowd the thread please pm me.
On Linux, whatever you launch and manage games with, you'll want to run Windows Warband through Proton (Wine fork for gaming). Not familiar with Bottles, if it's like Steam or Lutris, you should be able to add the game to it and configure it to run with Proton if it doesn't automatically. As an example since it's probably a similar idea, with Steam you just right click Warband in your library, go to Properties and Compatibility, check the box, pick a Proton version, then Warband should work. Then you install WSE the same way you would following the Windows instructions.
I use the GloriousEggroll Proton fork. Can't post links since I was a lurker who only now registered after your post motivated me to reply, but it's on Github and is usually best for games. It works with Steam and Lutris, should for Bottles too. If WSE doesn't run and gives an error, the Wine prefix it's installed in is probably just missing the required Visual C++ library (can't remember if I had to go out of my way to install it or not). If so, all you need to do to fix it is install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable Package (x86) using Winetricks or Protontricks.
WSE should work perfectly on Linux, you won't miss out on anything. Didn't PM you in case the above could be helpful to anyone else in a search, but feel free to PM me if you need more help; happy to help someone else get started with Linux.