in over my head

Questions about Wine on macOS.
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irish972
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in over my head

Post by irish972 »

First, I did use the search function but didn't see anything that answered my issue...so I'm not lazy :lol: ...just a bit clueless :?

I want to run some Windows programs on my Mac and I'm tired of hopping out to my bootcamp drive to do it if I don't have to.

So, I'm looking to install Wine 1.7 on my MacBook (OS X v10.7.5). Thanks to info I found here I have downloaded and installed Xcode and its Command Line Function as well as MacPorts.

from there I searched around for a walkthrough on installing Wine itself onto my Mac. I found this and used it: http://code.google.com/p/osxwinebuilder/.

To my surprise, I got somewhere (I think). Took a good while for it to get all the files downloaded , but then this happened (last line)

successfully downloaded http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/w ... .0.tar.bz2 to /Users/irish972/wine/source/wine-1.7.0.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/ccache-3.1.7.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/20120601014516_gcc-5666.3_patched.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libtool-2.4.2.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/xz-5.0.3.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libffi-3.0.11.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/pkg-config-0.25.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/pkg-config-0.26.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/gettext-0.18.1.1.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/jbigkit-2.0.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/tiff-3.9.6.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libpng-1.2.49.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libpng-1.4.4.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/glib-2.32.3.tar.xz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/mpg123-1.14.2.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/gsm-1.0.13.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/freetype-2.4.9.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/fontconfig-2.9.0.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/lcms-1.19.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/lcms2-2.5.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/lzo-2.06.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libgpg-error-1.10.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/gmp-5.0.5.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/nettle-2.4.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/p11-kit-0.12.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/gnutls-2.12.19.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/unixODBC-2.3.0.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libexif-0.6.20.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libusb-1.0.9.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libusb-compat-0.1.4.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/gd-2.0.36RC1.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libgphoto2-2.4.14.tar.bz2
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/jasper-1.900.1.zip
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/libicns-0.8.0.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/SDL-1.2.15.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/SDL_net-1.2.8.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/SDL_sound-1.0.3.tar.gz
successfully verified /Users/irish972/wine/source/dosbox-0.74.tar.gz
failed to verify /Users/irish972/wine/source/orc-0.4.16.tar.gz - exiting

any assistance I can get is appreciated. I will try to answer any questions I can.
doh123
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Re: in over my head

Post by doh123 »

you don't need osxwinebuilder with MacPorts... just install Macports and use that to do it all for you.

After Macports is installed, just use...

sudo port install wine-devel

and it will get and build the latest version of wine development for you...
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Re: in over my head

Post by irish972 »

thank you for your response, doh! will give that a go
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Re: in over my head

Post by irish972 »

well whaddya know...that worked! thank you very much, doh!
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