[Wine] Re: Cant use Darwine on PPC with 10.5 Leopard

straightgq wineforum-user at winehq.org
Thu Jul 24 23:25:14 CDT 2008


thanx i will try it.  the mac native versions of soulseek dont work for leopard, well at least on my comp anyways.


Zach wrote:
> Ack, hit send too soon.. Sorry for the spam..
> 
> My builds of darwine are Intel only.  I only have a MBP, i have no
> experience in running Darwine on a PPC machine. Sorry. And ther kronenberg
> builds are also Intel only..
> 
> 
> However.. http://darwine.sourceforge.net/docs/user-doc.xml has instructions
> on building Darwine with QEMU.  I dont know how well they work - again, MBP
> - but its worth a shot if you want to try.
> 
> 
> There's mac-native versions of Soulseek, why not use one of those?
> 
> 
> Sorry for the original short/terse response.. :s
> 
> 
> -Zach
> 
> On 7/24/08, Zach Drayer <zach at drayer.name> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > My builds of darwine are Intel only.  I only have a MBP, i have no
> > experience in running Darwine on a PPC machine. Sorry.
> > 
> > On 7/24/08, straightgq <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > ill start off by saying that I've tried reading and doing everything that
> > > was on the documentation.  I'm not very code/C++ literate.
> > > 
> > > I have a Power PC Macintosh that I run Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard with.
> > > 
> > > I'm going through all this trouble to run 1 simple program, Soulseek.
> > > 
> > > I downloaded Darwine 0.9.27 DP.
> > > 
> > > When i try to run any program, soulseek, notepad/clock that came with
> > > darwine, it says that "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"
> > > 
> > > i downloaded freetype 2.3.7, it didnt work.  then i downloaded fontforge,
> > > it didnt work.
> > > 
> > > any help with this so that I can run soulseek would be GREATLY
> > > appreciated!!  thanx again
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
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