Vpad

This project provides a virtual Xbox controller for applications running in Wine that can be controlled with named pipe accessible from host Linux environment. As this project is highly specialized, only one virtual controller is supported

How it works

It's just a Xinput reimplementation for Wine. When Wine application starts, it creates a named pipe (/tmp/vpad by default) and waits for events. Events are just binary structures that are read sequentially. Events format is described in vpad_common.h.

For testing purposes there is a client that listens to the gamepad using PyGame and emits corresponding events to the pipe. Client is designed to be used with DualShock 4, but can be easily remapped to another gamepad.

Installation

Prebuilt DLLs are available in Releases section

• Put DLLs to Wine's system32 and syswow64 folders
• Set xinput_*.dll override to Native (Windows) in Wine configuration

Possible problems

This project is extremely experimental. Only xinput1_3.dll (both 32 and 64 bits) is really tested by the author

Building

Just make. Requires winegcc (wine-{stable,devel,staging}-dev and its i386 version in Ubuntu)