Install MetaTrader 5 64-bit on RHEL/CentOS 7

Good to know: MQL5 compiler for x64 platforms claims a speed up calculations from 2 to 10 times with the new MQL5 compiler for x64 platforms.

2 steps involved:

Installing Wine
Solving Specify the Proxy problem during the MT5 installation on Linux

Install Last Wine on RHEL/CentOS 7

Source: How to Install Wine 32-bit on CentOS

We have today only x86-64 Wine versions. However, many Windows .exe files are 32-bit and with 64-bit versions, some software have installation file in 32-bit. And other such as Office 2007, even 32-bit wine is preferred.

One single script to build and install Wine

Check Wine download repository: http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/

Find in it the archive you want to use, for me: http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/3.x/wine-3.19.tar.xz

This url gives you the 2 parameters:

ver=3.19
verurlstr=3.x

The whole process has already been written as a shell script by Eric Z Ma, I just perfomed some slight modifications to it.

First, erase old wine versions installed.
```
sudo yum erase wine wine-*
```
Download this script: install-wine-i686-centos7.sh.

Give execute permission to it

chmod +x ./install-wine-i686-centos7.sh

And execute it

sudo ./install-wine-i686-centos7.sh 3.19 3.x

Step by step process

Erase old wine versions installed

If you ever installed wine packages, erase them first as we will build wine from the source.

yum erase wine wine-*

Install packages needed to build wine

yum install samba-winbind-clients -y
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' -y
yum install libjpeg-turbo-devel libtiff-devel freetype-devel -y
yum install glibc-devel.{i686,x86_64} libgcc.{i686,x86_64} libX11-devel.{i686,x86_64} freetype-devel.{i686,x86_64} gnutls-devel.{i686,x86_64} libxml2-devel.{i686,x86_64} libjpeg-turbo-devel.{i686,x86_64} libpng-devel.{i686,x86_64} libXrender-devel.{i686,x86_64} alsa-lib-devel.{i686,x86_64} -y 

# ... and more ...
# Check the `install-wine-i686-centos7.sh` script for more packages needed.

Download and unpack the source package

ver=3.19 # We will use this as the example. 
verurlstr=3.x

vermajor=$(echo ${ver} | cut -d'.' -f1)

cd /usr/src
if [[ "${vermajor}" == "1" ]]; then
  wget http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/${verurlstr}/wine-${ver}.tar.bz2 -O wine-${ver}.tar.bz2
  tar xjf wine-${ver}.tar.bz2
else
  wget http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/${verurlstr}/wine-${ver}.tar.xz -O wine-${ver}.tar.xz
  tar xf wine-${ver}.tar.xz
fi

Build wine 32-bit and 64-bit versions

Make directories for building wine 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

cd wine-${ver}/
mkdir -p wine32 wine64

Build the 64-bit version first as 32-bit version building depends on it.

cd wine64
../configure --enable-win64
make -j 4

Build the 32-bit version now.

cd ../wine32
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig ../configure --with-wine64=../wine64
make -j 4

Install wine 32-bit and 64-bit versions

Now, we can install Wine. The trick is to install 32-bit version first and then the 64-bit version.

As we are still in the win32 directory, run

make install

Install the 64-bit version:

cd ../wine64
make install

By now, if everything goes well, you have successfully installed the Wine 32-bit and 64-bit versions. You may double-check it with the file command:

$ file `which wine`
/usr/local/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=a83b9f0916e6c0d5427e2c38a172c93bd8023d98, not stripped
$ file `which wine64`
/usr/local/bin/wine64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=4d8e8468402bc63bd2a72c59c57fcad332235d41, not stripped

Note the “ELF 32-bit” and “ELF 64-bit” in the file type strings.

Now you can run either 32-bit:

wine my_app.exe

or 64-bit

wine64 my_app.exe

…Windows application on RHEL/CentOS 7.

Solving Specify the Proxy problem during the MT5 installation on Linux

Source: How to solve Specify The Proxy problem when installing MT5 on Ubuntu (Linux)

Problem

After downloading the MT5 setup file designed for Windows with Wine on Linux and after running it, you suddenly stumble upon this little problem related to some proxy information no one knows.

 Specify the Proxy Server

Solution

So the solution is simple you just need to install MT5 under a computer with Windows then just look for MT4 files under Program Files and import them on your Linux computer :

Install MT5 on a Windows machine
Zip MT5 files under Program Files
Extract your zipped MT5 files on your Linux machine
Run MT5 with Wine
1. for MetaTrader:
```
wine64 terminal64.exe
```
2. for MetaEditor :
```
wine64 metaeditor64.exe
```
Specify the information of your broker