why is Kronenberg's Wine/Mac work blacklisted on winehq?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 6 21:07:16 CDT 2009


Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
>   
>> Something that I do have to point out is that freetype, a very
>>     
> important
>   
>> library for Wine is not shipped with XCode nor MacOSX.  We have to
>> include it.
>>     
>
> Huh? On my 10.5.7 Leopard system, Wine was able to find FreeType -- with
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH guidance.  And I have nothing but
> - MacOS (with iLife preinstalled)
> - (selected packages from) the Xcode install DVD and
> - XQuartz 2.3.3.2
> installed on that box.
>
> Did you install Apple's X11 before installing XQuartz, as the XQuartz
> site recommends?
>
> Are you mislead by the following error message?
> ---- snip
> Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to
> use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
> or equal to 2.0.5.
> http://www.freetype.org
> Building font metrics. This may take some time...
> Font metrics: 0.0% done
> fixme:font:LFD_InitFontInfo DBCS fonts like
> '-daewoo-gothic-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-160-ksc5601.1987-0'
> are not working correctly now.
> ...
> ----
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17674#c4
> I saw those on my first compile && make && ./wine winecfg
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11/lib ./wine notepad
> prevents those messages. Wine then starts up much faster (still slower
> than a slower Ubuntu box, some people suppose that is due to the many
> fonts) and does not re-generate font data for *every* subprocess ran
> inside Wine.
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11/lib is needed because libfreetype.* is there.
>
> If you want, I'll try to identify (using pkgutil) what package installed
> /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.*.
>   
It's there.  I'll check Fink to see what the latest versions are and how
they compare.

James McKenzie




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