Wine Ma os X port

Igor Izyumin igor at mlug.missouri.edu
Mon Aug 26 12:11:23 CDT 2002


On Monday 26 August 2002 11:45 am, David Suarez wrote:
> Im kinda new to Wine, and I hope to get into very much, however I had one
> question which im sure everyone has heard alot of. Is there any way to run
> WINE on mac OS X being that it is based on FreeBSD. I have played around
> with the mac's and have gotten several linux programs to run, however i
> haven't tried wine yet. I do no that os X comes with many development tools
> that could possible be used for porting an app, but then again i am new at
> this so im not sure. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

The only way that wine would be able to run on OS X is if:
a) OS X gets ported to x86
b) Wine includes an x86 emulator and gets nearly re-written.
Both have about an equal chance of happening.  Read the docs at winehq.com for 
more information.
-- 
-- Igor



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