[Wine] Wine and OS X
Kevin Horton
khorton01 at rogers.com
Fri Mar 7 07:54:11 CST 2008
On 6 Mar 2008, at 21:27, James McKenzie wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps the issue was found and corrected in Darwine. It caused me
enough grief that I wasn't tempted to try it again, especially as I
found that simply installing wine using the Fink packaging system was
perfectly adequate to my needs.
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Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
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