Before I get Started, Wine with Snow Leopard, Couple Q's

[ShortyEmcee]

Ok, I need to run Sony CD Architect on my Mac (Without VM Software if possible)

I did get it to run Stable, albeit, without Audio - although, I didn't realize I was using 3rd Party (WineBottler)

So, tonight, I will run Wine from the WineHQ Download page, and also MacPorts ???

I am very new to this, and don't know what I'm doing, so please bare with me as I learn.
(Which I do quickly.... didn't realize the 3rd party thing until this morning)

I have some programming knowledge on the PC side, but know nothing of command-line stuff on the Mac side, so this may be a bit slower.

Is there a particular version of Wine that works best with OS 10.6.8 ???
Is MacPorts needed?

One more particular thing I will need to learn, is how to add other files or program installations into the 'directory' that the 'ported' software is using.
Once I have CD Architect running, I need to throw a bunch of plugin files into the correct 'directory' folder so the application can find them.
Not sure how to do this part or if it is possible????

Please forgive me, as I am very very clueless with this so far.... and while I will be doing a lot of reading, any pointers for starting out would be appreciated.

Thank you

[ShortyEmcee]

Another Q: When these are 'ported' (I don't know the termonology), are they 'bundled' into a single app file that I could copy and transfer to another machine???

I own this software, but I am testing this on my MacBook (Late 2007 Santa Rosa) rather than my Mac Pro (5,1 Q2.8 32GB RAM)

In the off chance anyone were willing to attempt to port this FOR me, I would be crazy grateful ....
Trial Download, active for 30 Days: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/dow ... darchitect

Is it ok to post outside links here? If not I will remove

[doh123]

while you might get most of the software to work, you aren't going to have direct drive access through Wine, so it won't be able to use any of your drives... so I'm not sure the point in getting it to work.

Yes to use normal Wine, Macports is the easiest way to go since it'll download the source and everything it depends on and compile it all for you with a single command...
port install wine-devel

Directories are made in the wineprefix. By default this is ~/.wine ... which means a folder named .wine in your home folder. Normal Unix though so you cannot see the . files in Finder... so you either need to look up how to enable hidden files viewed in Finder, or you can see it one time by typing in Terminal...
open ~/.wine

All that said, if you need to run software that needs hardware access to say a CD drive.. your much better off using Windows in Parallels 8+... it works quite nicely.

[ShortyEmcee]

It won't be able to access my CD/DVD Drive???

If so, definite deal breaker.

[ShortyEmcee]

Ok. Well... Have CD Architect Running on Wine 1.5.14

Literally JUST got it working right after my last post a couple seconds ago (Admin/Mod can eliminate if you wish)

No CD/DVD Drive. Any way to accomplish this?

Definite deal breaker if it can't be done with Wine.....

If it is possible to make it work with my optical drive, then the next step is to get my plugins visible....
They are installed separately, and I need them to be seen by CD Architect.
What I can do is just copy the DX, VST, and Wrapper files, and paste them into the virtual directory somewhere , I think ????

I am such a lost rookie with this.....

[ischou]

On the command-line type:

winecfg

(You may need to set WINEPREFIX=/path/to/your/.wine if you used something other than default.)

Select the "Drives" tab, and then select "Show Advanced" button.

You will see a pull down for "Type:" If you select CD-ROM, wine will try to guess which special device from your /dev/ drive is your CD-ROM and assign it to a drive letter. Depending on how many partitions, local, and external hard drives you have connected, this may or may not automatically work correctly.

If not, you may have to manually enter the Device path.

[ShortyEmcee]

Thanx, if I select autodetect, the only thing it finds is H: /user/me

If I show advanced, select CDROM, and select autodetect, is does the same thing....

This is on my MacBook Late 2007 Santa Rosa, and the Optical is on the ATA bus if that matters (BSD Name disk1)

I see Z: as /dev/rdisk0s2

Is there a way to manually target the optical?

How do I manually enter the path???

No matter what drive letter I select to add, it doesn't show a device....

THANK YOU

[ShortyEmcee]

Ok. I started over.
redid everything. MacPorts, and reinstalled wine-devel
sudo port instal wine-devel

Then, typed
wine
Dragged in my installer EXE, it ran me through the install.
When the install finishes, it closes
It did
I need to relaunch now to enter my serial and run the program, but I can't get it to launch....

Now what ?

if I ~wine/.wine from terminal I do get to my .wine directory, and everything looks good.

But, how do I launch the app ?

I thought I just typed
wine
in terminal
and could drag in the EXE and press enter to launch the program
but I get nothing

Little more help for the noob ????

[doh123]

Ok. I started over.
redid everything. MacPorts, and reinstalled wine-devel
sudo port instal wine-devel

Then, typed
wine
Dragged in my installer EXE, it ran me through the install.
When the install finishes, it closes
It did
I need to relaunch now to enter my serial and run the program, but I can't get it to launch....

Now what ?

if I ~wine/.wine from terminal I do get to my .wine directory, and everything looks good.

But, how do I launch the app ?

I thought I just typed
wine
in terminal
and could drag in the EXE and press enter to launch the program
but I get nothing

Little more help for the noob ????

you need to cd into the folder... things don't launch right in many programs if you aren't in the right working directory.

something like....

cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/SomeFolder"
and then...
wine whatever.exe

All that said... no you will not get CD drive support. You'll get conflicted answers here because there is some drive support like that in Linux with Wine, but there is none with OSX. There is no drive access for any current version of Wine on OSX... it just accesses discs through the normal mount point like any other folder, but can not access the drive directly. If your program was just reading data off a disc, it wouldn't be an issue, but since your trying to write them... I don't see how you can get it to work without going in to Wine and implementing a bunch of support for optical drives which no one ever has done.

[ShortyEmcee]

ah, ah, ah....

I see. Well... Booooo.

It's a real pitty.... off to VM Software I guess.

I was really really really trying to avoid it.

Is what it is I guess.

THANK YOU

Now I just need to figure out how to uninstall wine ha....

And, I did get it to launch, just had to restart terminal for some reason (Probably directory related after install, like you suggested?)

At any rate, yeah, no burning is a deal breaker.

Thanx for your help.