[Wine] AutoCAD and Wine

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri May 8 21:03:30 CDT 2009


miciomax wrote:
> austin987 wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:22 AM, miciomax <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>>
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>>> ruelle wrote:
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>>>> a good news about autoCAD:
>>>> http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=23584&sid=450fb2ccd4751fd3d6d5528da00ef90d
>>>>
>>>> thank you Max!!
>>>>
>>>> when the patch will be accepted in official wine-git?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Point 2, aka the DIB engine, won't very probably never be accepted on wine (at least, my solution), so the only way by now is to patch wine.
>>> I'm thinking to upload somewhere the gdi32.dll.so and winedib.drv.dll.so
>>> precompiled files for people who want to test without rebuild wine....
>>>
>>>       
>> That's pretty hacky, and can break across different
>> distributions/versions of libc/etc.
>>
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>
> I'm afraid that you're right.... well, OTOH Ubuntu/debian now is the most widespread distro, and another build should be for Mac Osx.
>
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>>> I'm also thinking on making a debian pre-built patched wine package, for AutoCAD users.... if I've time to do it, I'll post news here.
>>>
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>> To be honest, I think making a Autocad version of wine would be great.
>>
>> Make a repository, keep it up to date with regular wine + DIB engine +
>> a few hacks for autocad.
>>
>> Just be sure to make it clear it's not 'vanilla' wine, so bugs
>> shouldn't be filed against it without first verifying them in vanilla
>> wine.
>>
>> Scott can probably help you with this. If not, let me know.
>>
>> -- 
>> -Austin
>>     
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> Thanx, I'm thinking too that it could help for many people to migrato to linux or to use autocad on Mac OSx...
>   

:)  Thank you for all of your work on the DIB engine.  You are doing
well with some of the fixes.  It will be hard to clean them up so that
they can be incorporated into Wine.

James McKenzie





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