[Wine] Re: New install not working

[vitamin]

perryh wrote:
> 
> > There are number of bugs for Wine not working on *BSD ... in most
> > cases there is nothing Wine can do - it's the OS limitations that
> > cause all the problems.
> > 
> 
> Is there a list of those OS limitations somewhere?  I'm a lot more
> familiar with FreeBSD than with either Wine or Windows, so might
> conceivably be able to work on fixing some of the limitations.
> 
> My interest in all this is to run one particular Windows app on
> FreeBSD.  I've gotten the impression that Wine is probably the most
> promising way to accomplish this, in addition to being a Good Thing
> as a matter of principle.

Wine is the only thing you can use other then VM to run windows apps on *NIX.

You can search bugzilla for the  list of FreeBSD bugs (http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&op_sys=FreeBSD)