[Wine] Wine and OS X

[Kevin Horton]

On 6 Mar 2008, at 21:27, James McKenzie wrote:

> Kevin Horton wrote:
>> On 5 Mar 2008, at 22:01, James McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>> Xelinis wrote:
>>>> James McKenzie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Xelinis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, I am aware of Darwine but I've heard mixed opinions on  
>>>>>> how to get it up and running.  Some say Fink, some say  
>>>>>> Macports, others say compile from source.  However, at the  
>>>>>> same time, I've heard complaints about all of the above  
>>>>>> options, particularly with OpenGL support.  I'm just wondering  
>>>>>> if there's anyone here who can clear this up.
>>>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the detailed response but do you suppose you could  
>>>> elaborate a bit more on using a different X11?  Like I said  
>>>> before, my experience with Macs is a bit limited.
>>>>
>>> You could install X11 from either Fink or Macports and then build  
>>> Darwine using them.  I have no use at this time for OpenGL as  
>>> none of the programs I run uses it.  I use Fink for my ported  
>>> software and additionally recommend visiting the Fink web site  
>>> for more information.
>>>
>> Darwine is not available as a Fink package.  Darwine is not really  
>> compatible with Fink, as it messes with freetype-config, and that  
>> screws up X11 for some Fink packages.  I found this out the hard way:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2p53nt
>>
> No strange occurrances of freetype-config on my system and I build  
> and install Darwine.  I'm wondering why this happened.

Perhaps the issue was found and corrected in Darwine.  It caused me  
enough grief that I wasn't tempted to try it again, especially as I  
found that simply installing wine using the Fink packaging system was  
perfectly adequate to my needs.

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Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada