[Wine] Wine and OS X

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com
Thu Mar 6 20:27:52 CST 2008


Kevin Horton wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2008, at 22:01, James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Xelinis wrote:
>>> James McKenzie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Xelinis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I am aware of Darwine but I've heard mixed opinions on how to 
>>>>> get it up and running.  Some say Fink, some say Macports, others 
>>>>> say compile from source.  However, at the same time, I've heard 
>>>>> complaints about all of the above options, particularly with 
>>>>> OpenGL support.  I'm just wondering if there's anyone here who can 
>>>>> clear this up.
>>>>>
>>> Thank you for the detailed response but do you suppose you could 
>>> elaborate a bit more on using a different X11?  Like I said before, 
>>> my experience with Macs is a bit limited.
>>>
>> You could install X11 from either Fink or Macports and then build 
>> Darwine using them.  I have no use at this time for OpenGL as none of 
>> the programs I run uses it.  I use Fink for my ported software and 
>> additionally recommend visiting the Fink web site for more information.
>>
> Darwine is not available as a Fink package.  Darwine is not really 
> compatible with Fink, as it messes with freetype-config, and that 
> screws up X11 for some Fink packages.  I found this out the hard way:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2p53nt
>
No strange occurrances of freetype-config on my system and I build and 
install Darwine.  I'm wondering why this happened.

James McKenzie




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