[Wine] Trying to Install Wine on Snow Leopard OSX

[James Mckenzie]

sigma wrote on [Wine]  Trying to Install Wine on Snow Leopard OSX:
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>This appears:
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>seko$ sudo port install wine-devel
>--->  Computing dependencies for wine-devel
>--->  Fetching wine-devel
>--->  Attempting to fetch wine-1.1.34.tar.bz2 from http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/wine
>--->  Verifying checksum(s) for wine-devel
>--->  Extracting wine-devel
>Error: You cannot install wine-devel for the architecture(s) i386
>Error: because /opt/local/lib/libexpat.dylib only contains the architecture(s) x86_64.

You have to remove and then reinstall the MacPorts as universal rather than x86_64.  Wine for MacOSX will NOT build for X86_64 and will NOT be able to run any Win32 programs.

>Error: Try reinstalling the port that provides /opt/local/lib/libexpat.dylib with the +universal variant.

This is exactly what you must do.  If you need help, please look through forum postings related to running Wine on MacOSX Snow Leopard or review this on the MacPorts web site.

>but it failed at the end because wine 1.x did not support snow leopard. but what's wrong with the devel build?

Nothing.  Wine x86_64 is not stable, or in most cases usable.  Thus MacPorts is not building it, yet.

James McKenzie