Re: [Fink-users] Wine on X11

[ATMRD]

>>is anyone working on getting Wine to work with X11 on a mac?� Is this even
>>possible?� If this is possible would be great to work towards getting WineX
>>working also.
>>-Jonathan

Yes there is a group of us working on this port.  A project has been opened up at sourceforge entitled Darwine.  http://www.sf.net/projects/darwine which I am a member of :-).

>>Because of the way wine works, it needs an x86 processor (versus a PowerPC)
>>to run. Porting wine would be like rewriting VirtualPC.

This is incorrect.  Wine does not need a x86 processor, heh.  The core of wine is Unix.  The major hurdle's have been the mach-o format compared to ELF and the ppc cpu functions ( I belive).  Wine has been run under linuxPPC and has allready been succesfully compiled under Mac OS X.  A patch has been submitted to winehq by Pierre.  Currently the project is updating the mac os x code base to better reflect the recent changes in the wine cvs.

>>As Jonathan has already mentioned, wine on a PowerPC will not work.
>>Bochs my be an alternative to emulate an x86 based OS on any other computer.


Once this project is stable there will be no need for x86 emulation! :-P

~Sanjay Connare