[Wine] Wine and Mac Os X

[James Mckenzie]

DanKegel <wineforum-user at winehq.org> at: Dec 21, 2008 8:24 AM(MST) wrote about: [Wine]  Re: Wine and Mac Os X
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>James Mckenzie wrote:
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>> Of Darwine, I know of two people who are working on this for the Intel Macs:  Mike Kronenberg and Zach Drayer.  Both are good distributions of the program.
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>> As to problems with either distribution, you should use their web sites.  Darwine is not supported by the Wine project.  
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>Darwine was the name of the old powerpc project that combined 
>an x86 emulator and wine.  There's no particular reason for that name 
>to live on now that plain old wine can compile and run on Mac OS X,
>but I guess it's catchy.
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Actually, several packages are needed that do not come with MacOSX to support all fonts.  Thus the script provided by the Darwine project should be used.  This is not a shortcoming of the Wine project.

>We should probably start linking to it from http://winehq.org/download/
>to emphasize that we want to fix bugs that affect Mac users.
>I'll start a discussion on wine-devel...

There are two distributions of Darwine.  At the present time, there are problems printing from Wine for the MacOSX builds.

James McKenzie