[Wine] Re: Trying to load MIRC with Wine on a Mac

[doh123]

tigerperson wrote:
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> doh123 wrote:
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> > tigerperson wrote:
> > > This is driving me crazy.  I have wine downloaded on my MAC.  It's in my application folder.  I have MIRC downloaded and it's also in my Application folder.  But, when I turn off MIRC, and turn it back on, the whole thing wants to reload.  Very annoying since that means it's not saving settings.  Any ideas?
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> > Your not using plain Wine if its in your Applications folder.. your using something else that has its own support channels, and isn't supported here.
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> > You may need to check the AppDB to see if there is anything special you need to do to get mIRC to run
> > http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=77
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> I admit to being confused about the whole thing.  i know when I open the file in my application file, (Mirc.exe in winebottler) it opens another program, X11.  I'll check out the site you suggested.  The whole thing has me perplexed since I'm new to Mac's.  Thanks for your input.


Normal Wine on Macs is compiled in Terminal, or done for you with Fink or Macports, but still compiled from source, then all ran command line.  You are probably using WineBottler's Wine.app which is a 3rd party app.
http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications

X11.app or XQuartz is required on Macs for Wine because Wine is made for X11... all other OSes that Wine runs on use X11 is their main windowing interface... Macs don't.

Just for the heck of it, I made a quick Wineskin wrapper (WS7Wine1.2.2 engine) for mIRC and put 7.19 in it and it seems to work just fine, and remembers info from what I had last time it ran... so it should be possible... but Wineskin has its own X11 built in much like Crossover has their own built in.