[Wine] wine, snow leopard, 16bit support

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 17 12:50:39 CST 2010


asheenlevrai wrote:
> hello everybody
>
> I recently installed wine on snow leopard and successfully installed my first windows application :-)
>
> then I tried to install another one but it failed, with this error message:
>
>
> Code:
> wine setup.exe
> wine: could not run L"Z:\\Users\\*****\\desktop\\*****\\installer\\setup.exe": 16-bit/DOS support missing
>
>
>
> This is probably a very common and easy-to-solve problem for you all, but I must admit that I didn't find anything yet about this kind of problem, except DOS emulators for OS X, which is not what I need...
>   
16 bit Windows support is disabled on most Wine builds.  This is because
16 bit application building on Leopard is broken.  Nothing to do with
your system and there is an open bug report that Wine cannot fix.

James McKenzie




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