[Wine] Mac OS X, DOS tools start X11, this is silly...

[James Mckenzie]

perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote on Sept. 10th:
>"caveman" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>> Thunderbird wrote:
>> > Most Windows console programs still make gdi32/user32 calls
>> > which require an Xserver.
>> The program has finished way before X11 is started.
>
>Has there been any thought given to delaying wine's initialization
>of its X connection, fonts, etc. until the Windows program actually
>executes a call that requires an X server?
>
This will cause Wine to crash with an X server not found error.  This was a major cause of problems between MacOSX 10.4 and MacOSX 10.5.  

In other words, there has to be a running X server in order for Wine to run.  This is a requirement even for windowless operations.

James McKenzie