To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts

Questions about Wine on macOS.
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mrolr
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To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts

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Having some issues with Wine not finding truetype

001d:err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out
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
Gcenx
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Re: To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts

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mrolr wrote:Having some issues with Wine not finding truetype

001d:err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out
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
First thing you should have install was XQuartz 2.7.7 or later that includes libfreetype along with libpng15.15 that’s also needed to run wine
mrolr
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Re: To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts

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Thanks, I have solved this now using brew and a clean install.

Many thanks :D
Gcenx
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Re: To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts

Post by Gcenx »

mrolr wrote:Thanks, I have solved this now using brew and a clean install.

Many thanks :D
I will be honest here I really wouldn't recommend installing wine via brew its missing features that are available in the winehq releases.

If your just wanting to have wine available using a normal terminal session I did update the macOS wiki section to include instructions for adding the "Wine Stable.app" , "Wine Devel.app" or "Wine Staging.app" to terminal's path so its usable just like a macports/brew installation..
The same can be accomplished by just unpacking a portable release just modifying the PATH variable slightly.
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