[WINEDOCS] add question on Intel MacOS X

Emmanuel Maillard mahanuu at opendarwin.org
Tue Mar 21 09:40:17 CST 2006


Hi,

The plan for porting Darwine/ppc is to use qemu either Bochs.

Thanks

Emmanuel

Le 21 mars 06 à 06:48, Brian Vincent a écrit :

> Are there any other FAQ additions anyone wants to see?  There's at  
> least one other one I was thinking of adding but have since forgotten.
>
> Changelog:
> Brian Vincent
> Explicitly address Intel Mac OS X.
>
> Index: en/wine-faq.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/wine/docs/en/wine-faq.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.15
> diff -u -u -r1.15 wine-faq.sgml
> --- en/wine-faq.sgml    1 Feb 2006 04:47:04 -0000       1.15
> +++ en/wine-faq.sgml    21 Mar 2006 05:45:34 -0000
> @@ -591,9 +591,12 @@
>          <para>
>            Mac OS X / Darwin: The <ulink
>            url="http://darwine.opendarwin.org/">Darwine</ulink>  
> project is
> -          currently working on porting Wine to the Darwin/x86  
> platform. Their
> -          goal is to eventually make it possible to run x86 Windows
> +          currently working on porting Wine to the Darwin/x86  
> platform.
> +          Their goal is to eventually make it possible to run x86  
> Windows
>            applications on Darwin/PPC and then Mac OS X by using  
> Bochs.
> +          In addition, CodeWeavers has focused some of their  
> resources on
> +          Intel Mac OS X as well.  With a little luck, Wine will  
> be running on
> +          it by the third quarter of 2006.
>          </para>
>          <para>
>            FreeBSD: This port is well maintained and should work with
> @@ -606,7 +609,32 @@
>          </para>
>        </answer>
>        </qandaentry>
> -
> +      <qandaentry>
> +      <question id="Will-wine-run-on-macintel">
> +        <para>
> +          I want to run Wine on an Intel Mac OS X (MacIntel)  
> system, will it
> +          work?
> +        </para>
> +      </question>
> +      <answer>
> +        <para>
> +          (Also see the previous question.)  As of March, 2006,  
> simple
> +          applications are just beginning to to run on Intel Mac  
> OS X.
> +          It's possible in about 6 months we'll see applications  
> running
> +          similarly to how they do on Linux or FreeBSD.
> +        </para>
> +        <para>
> +          There are some complicated issues surrounding Wine on  
> Mac OS X.
> +          Working with low-level features, such as signal handling  
> and system
> +          registers, are quite different on Mac OS X.  Further  
> hampering
> +          the issue are some bugs within the operating system.   
> Beyond
> +          that, integration on Mac OS X becomes difficult because  
> it is
> +          vastly different than a traditional *nix desktop.  Menuing
> +          and graphics drivers are just two areas that require a  
> complete
> +          reimplementation in order to be functional.
> +        </para>
> +      </answer>
> +      </qanaentry>
>        <qandaentry>
>        <question id="What-minimum-CPU-must-I-have">
>          <para>
>
>




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