32bit Wine on macOS Catalina

[Dean Greer]

The current winemac.drv blocker will need to be resolved before this
conversion happens as right now it’s only working on Mojave and later.

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 7:56 AM Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2022, 15:55:13 EAT schrieb Eddie Hillenbrand:
>
> > My goal is to compile everything on Catalina and to run 32bit Wine on
> > Catalina. I can compile 64bit Wine without a problem and 32bit Wine
> > compiles against the MacOSX10.13.sdk.
>
> Whoa, you put a lot of effort into this and some results, and I am
> surprised
> that Catalina actually can create 32 bit processes.
>
> That said, what you are doing is not a good way forward. Even if we could
> make
> it work, and it magically worked on newer MacOS too, doing something Apple
> doesn't support won't work in the long run.
>
> However, the PE split is making progress in Wine, and winex11.drv is now
> split
> into a .so and .dll file. winemac.drv will be next. According to
> statements
> from Alexandre on IRC you can already run command line apps in a crossover-
> like 32on64 mode. Once the graphics driver is in place GUI apps won't be
> far
> away. And it will be much cleaner than the solution crossover is using,
> since
> it won't need a custom C compiler.
>
> So have some patience, a proper solution that works on newer OSes and even
> inside Rosetta 2 is coming. And at some future time we can even include
> our
> own CPU emulator for ARM support on Linux and for a future without Rosetta
> 2.
>
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