On 3/9/10 7:33 PM, Austin Leeds wrote:
Hey, I just read the latest info on the WINE project, which is basically breaking through platform and architecture barriers. There is a prebuilt binary for Intel Macs, as well as the source code for a project for a "reverse Rosetta", enabling PPC Macs to run Intel apps. WINE allows Macs to run Windows apps natively, without Parallels or Boot Camp. Plus, it's free—gotta love that. Anybody tried it? I'm going to run the Intel version tomorrow at school and see if it works— everybody cross your fingers!
I'm using it to run a Win-only DSP application. There's a flock of libraries,etc. that are needed for but fortunately they were already documented. Various files may be needed for any given application. Some at least will be reported as missing by the application.
WINE provides the API (software interface) to Windows programs and turns the calls into OS X calls. So in addition to not needing Parallels nor Boot Camp, it doesn't need Windows. It does need certain Windows files as above but many (all?) are available somewhere.
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