[Wine] Wine and OS X
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com
Thu Mar 6 20:27:52 CST 2008
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.
James McKenzie
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