WINE

WINE

The windows software emulator, not more booze. Wine is not an Emulator, it seems.

It claims Mac OSx support, but requires a build.

Summary

• Read the WINE Wiki … MacOSX Building
• Download xcode, for 10.5, you need version 3.1.3
• Download git (I think so)
• Download the source using git
• 'make' the binary, use --disable-win16
• link the xfree libraries to /usr/lib

Links

• http://www.winehq.org
• winehq macosx
• winehq mac install, there's no package, so you need
• winehq mac build which points me at Xcode.
• apple xcode 3.2 page for Snow Leopard
• version tracker's 3.1.2 page which I used to find...
• apple xcode 3.1.3 home for Leopard 10.5
• Winehq on Git, this was very useful.

Plan 1

Build from source, see also http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Building which has a pointer to using git.

./configure --verbose --disable-win16

The second parameter is not documented at the WINE wiki.

Not exactly well documented by me, but I used git to get the code and then made the package. This seems to work, at least the config program runs, I wonder where the c: drive is mapped to?

I shall test this using ConTEXT.

Using Context

Hmm, first, a shed load of freetype 2 errors, why's that? however, the good news is that it works. I download context from the web, and run the program.

wine ConTEXTv0_986.exe

it installs, offer you a location based on a file explorer, so you can install into your user file space, the Mac file tree or a new tree called c:\. I chose my user space.

Isn't google marvelous, google: "install wine freetype" finds this forum article at http://forums.macnn.com. They recommend linking the free type libraries into /usr/lib.

$ locate libfreetype

shows us that the libraries are in /usr/X11/lib (I am running 10.5 Leopard) and

$ cd /usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s /usr/X11/lib/libfree* .

seems to make the error messages go away and the program looks much better.