Wine and Mac Os X

Doris · Post by **Doris** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:31 pm

Hi,

I would like to know which Windows-Software you managed to use with Darwine on your Mac. I don't have to and don't want to run many programs this way but for example, Trix did not work at all.

Thanks!

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:37 pm

Doris wrote:

Hi,

I would like to know which Windows-Software you managed to use with Darwine on your Mac. I don't have to and don't want to run many programs this way but for example, Trix did not work at all.

What kind of Mac do you have?

James McKenzie

Doris · Post by **Doris** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:03 am

Hi,
I have an Intel Core 2 Duo and I even recently bought the latest version of Mac OsX (Leopard). I don't know, it would just be interesting to know how others handle Darwine on a Mac. I found a version which seems to be very user-friendly. I guess Boot Camp may be easier to handle, still I'm not really sure about the partition-thing.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:40 am

Doris <[email protected]>at: Dec 20, 2008 8:03 AM (MST) wrote about: [Wine] Re: Wine and Mac Os X

Hi,
I have an Intel Core 2 Duo and the latest version of Mac OsX (Leopard). I don't know, it would just be interesting to know how others handle the software. I found a version which seems to be very user-friendly.

Of Darwine, I know of two people who are working on this for the Intel Macs: Mike Kronenberg and Zach Drayer. Both are good distributions of the program.

I run several programs, mostly Bible based on Darwine.

As to problems with either distribution, you should use their web sites. Darwine is not supported by the Wine project. If you find that you cannot run a program under Darwine, such as Office 2007, you should first look at the Applications Database and then post here. What you have to do to run some programs under Darwine maybe different than what is needed to run them under Wine.

Also, to the people who will complain about my messages, my MacbookPro's display is not working. It is going to the repair shop today.

James McKenzie

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:33 pm

Doris wrote:

Hi,
I have an Intel Core 2 Duo and the latest version of Mac OsX (Leopard). I don't know, it would just be interesting to know how others handle the software. I found a version which seems to be very user-friendly.

The next question is what are you trying to install on Wine?

James McKenzie

Post by **DanKegel** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:24 am

James Mckenzie wrote: Of Darwine, I know of two people who are working on this for the Intel Macs: Mike Kronenberg and Zach Drayer. Both are good distributions of the program.

As to problems with either distribution, you should use their web sites. Darwine is not supported by the Wine project.

Darwine was the name of the old powerpc project that combined
an x86 emulator and wine. There's no particular reason for that name
to live on now that plain old wine can compile and run on Mac OS X,
but I guess it's catchy.

Mike's is the most up to date, it's at http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

We should probably start linking to it from http://winehq.org/download/
to emphasize that we want to fix bugs that affect Mac users.
I'll start a discussion on wine-devel...

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:42 am

DanKegel <[email protected]> at: Dec 21, 2008 8:24 AM(MST) wrote about: [Wine] Re: Wine and Mac Os X

James Mckenzie wrote:
Of Darwine, I know of two people who are working on this for the Intel Macs: Mike Kronenberg and Zach Drayer. Both are good distributions of the program.

As to problems with either distribution, you should use their web sites. Darwine is not supported by the Wine project.

Darwine was the name of the old powerpc project that combined
an x86 emulator and wine. There's no particular reason for that name
to live on now that plain old wine can compile and run on Mac OS X,
but I guess it's catchy.

Actually, several packages are needed that do not come with MacOSX to support all fonts. Thus the script provided by the Darwine project should be used. This is not a shortcoming of the Wine project.

We should probably start linking to it from http://winehq.org/download/
to emphasize that we want to fix bugs that affect Mac users.
I'll start a discussion on wine-devel...

There are two distributions of Darwine. At the present time, there are problems printing from Wine for the MacOSX builds.

James McKenzie