[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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