Wine Mac Help

imnickb · Post by **imnickb** » Fri May 25, 2012 7:34 pm

I'm trying to use Wine on my intel mac running snow leopard. I followed very thourough instructions (that I can no longer find) involving installing Xcode, Xquartz, Wine, Macports and the Java development kit. I thought everything was working since I was able to work through any errors in the installation process and things were looking good. However, when I try to install Sound Forge 10 using wine I get this error:

fixme:thread:SetThreadPreferredUILanguages 1, 0x0, 0x0

Xquartz opens, I hear the install disc start to spin up and then I get the error message and everything stops. Can anybody offer and help? I really don't know what to try next.

Thanks!

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Fri May 25, 2012 8:54 pm

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:34 PM, imnickb <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm trying to use Wine on my intel mac running snow leopard. I followed very thourough instructions (that I can no longer find) involving installing Xcode, Xquartz, Wine, Macports and the Java development kit. I thought everything was working since I was able to work through any errors in the installation process and things were looking good. However, when I try to install Sound Forge 10 using wine I get this error:

fixme:thread:SetThreadPreferredUILanguages 1, 0x0, 0x0

Xquartz opens, I hear the install disc start to spin up and then I get the error message and everything stops. Can anybody offer and help? I really don't know what to try next.

How about providing us with an error log.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log provides some instructions and
help.

Also, please be aware that 9.x version of Sound Forge is rated Garbage
for running on Linux and 10.0b is rated Bronze on an old version of
Wine.

James

imnickb · Post by **imnickb** » Sat May 26, 2012 6:20 pm

I tried printing the debug log and all I get is the same thing in the log:

fixme:thread:SetThreadPreferredUILanguages 1, 0x0, 0x0

I don't think it's a problem with Sound Forge since I'm running Sound Forge 10. I'll try installing another program that has a higher rating and see if that works.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat May 26, 2012 8:53 pm

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM, imnickb <[email protected]> wrote:

I tried printing the debug log and all I get is the same thing in the log:

fixme:thread:SetThreadPreferredUILanguages 1, 0x0, 0x0

I don't think it's a problem with Sound Forge since I'm running Sound Forge 10. I'll try installing another program that has a
higher rating and see if that works.

Interesting as this was tested with an older version of Wine, before
the changes to the audio subsystem, but that should not affect the
ability to install. I have no idea why it is not working.

James

imnickb · Post by **imnickb** » Mon May 28, 2012 7:03 pm

I was able to get an application to install and run using Wine, so it could just be that Sound Forge doesn't work and my Wine install is fine. Either way, I expected to be able to install it even if it doesn't run well. I've tried Wine, WineBottler, CrossOver and Macindows. Some of which are based on Wine anyway. I found some information from someone succesfully using Sound Forge with CrossOver. Although it's a different program, I'm wondering if the issues he had to work through will be the same as mine using Wine?

Sound Forge requires that the .Net Framework, the WMF 11 redist (if you're using an XP bottle) and VC2005 & 2008 SP1 runtimes are installed before the setup will continue.

Could this possibly be my issue? Does anyone have any input? I'm close to giving up, this seems to be extremely difficult!

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:58 am

imnickb wrote:I was able to get an application to install and run using Wine, so it could just be that Sound Forge doesn't work and my Wine install is fine. Either way, I expected to be able to install it even if it doesn't run well. I've tried Wine, WineBottler, CrossOver and Macindows. Some of which are based on Wine anyway. I found some information from someone succesfully using Sound Forge with CrossOver. Although it's a different program, I'm wondering if the issues he had to work through will be the same as mine using Wine?

Sound Forge requires that the .Net Framework, the WMF 11 redist (if you're using an XP bottle) and VC2005 & 2008 SP1 runtimes are installed before the setup will continue.
Could this possibly be my issue? Does anyone have any input? I'm close to giving up, this seems to be extremely difficult!

you could try using Winetricks to install all of those in your wineprefix and see if it then works...

imnickb · Post by **imnickb** » Thu May 31, 2012 4:54 pm

Thanks for the help! I didn't know about winetricks so this is helpful.

So to get winetricks from the terminal, I enter this:

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wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

And to run it, I enter this:

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sh winetricks

or

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./winetricks

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the help!

imnickb · Post by **imnickb** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:08 pm

I was able to use Winetricks to install all of those things. I'm still having the same issue. I realize SoundForge doesn't have the best history of function using Wine, but I'm not even able to get the program to begin to install, which makes me think I may have an issue with the Wine install or something else in the chain.

I've updated Wine to 1.5.5, I'm using X Quartz 2.7.2 and Macports 2.1.1. I still get this error:

fixme:thread:SetThreadPreferredUILanguages 1, 0x0, 0x0

Does anyone know what this means or perhaps where I can find something that might explain this error?

Thanks!