Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around WINE. We have a few kernel hackers involved, some members of the wine group, some members of PC-BSD, and at least one DragonflyBSD developer ... a truly rounded group. In order to avoid having this all mixed in, and lost, with other software discussions, the work is happening on a private list, but if anyone feels that they can contribute *programming knowledge* to the effort, email me and I'll add you to the list ... we aren't looking for testers on this list, see below about that ... To the real reason for this post, we have been slowly making headway ... If you go to: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine You will find several patches, both against FreeBSD and wine, that get the latest wine working under both 7.x and 6.x ... under 6.x, the only 'gotcha' is don't apply the signal patch yet, as it does break things ... For testing, Tijl is running 7.x and I am running 6.x ... in my case, with all patches applied, except the signal patch, I can get Freecell running ... in his case, with all patches applied, he can get MT4 running (MT4 is an online financial trading piece of software) ... For those that are interested in Wine, and are going to test the above patches, please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... it will also let us gauge how big/small the 'wine users' population happens to be ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGgnEP4QvfyHIvDvMRAp1rAJ9rJqQQs+8NtWis2g/YzpNSpWDPTwCgiSRZ tRIk8JJPJdkSUG4fVLbhqZ0= =rM6G -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 11:15 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around WINE. We have a few kernel hackers involved, some members of the wine group, some members of PC-BSD, and at least one DragonflyBSD developer ... a truly rounded group. In order to avoid having this all mixed in, and lost, with other software discussions, the work is happening on a private list, but if anyone feels that they can contribute *programming knowledge* to the effort, email me and I'll add you to the list ... we aren't looking for testers on this list, see below about that ... To the real reason for this post, we have been slowly making headway ... If you go to: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine You will find several patches, both against FreeBSD and wine, that get the latest wine working under both 7.x and 6.x ... under 6.x, the only 'gotcha' is don't apply the signal patch yet, as it does break things ... For testing, Tijl is running 7.x and I am running 6.x ... in my case, with all patches applied, except the signal patch, I can get Freecell running ... in his case, with all patches applied, he can get MT4 running (MT4 is an online financial trading piece of software) ... For those that are interested in Wine, and are going to test the above patches, please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... it will also let us gauge how big/small the 'wine users' population happens to be ... I wasn't aware there was such a big problem with Wine + FreeBSD - is it just chance that I've experienced absolutely no errors at all running Lotus Notes R5 with wine from ports? FreeBSD zoot.mintel.co.uk 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Jun 5 14:39:27 BST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOOT i386 $ wine --version wine-0.9.36 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)
Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around WINE. We have a few kernel hackers involved, some members of the wine group, some members of PC-BSD, and at least one DragonflyBSD developer ... a truly rounded group. just a big THANK YOU! you are incredible thnx! roman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 16:34:04 +0100 Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't aware there was such a big problem with Wine + FreeBSD - is it just chance that I've experienced absolutely no errors at all running Lotus Notes R5 with wine from ports? Very much so ... one of the biggest problems that we've been addressing is that FreeBSD's threading doesn't allow for cross process signally of threads ... we have a 'thr_kill()' function, but it only allows signalling a thread within the same process ... Wine uses a two process model (not sure when they changed to it) where there is a 'master' (ie. NT kernel) with chid processes that get started up for the applications ... current FreeBSD model has no way for the master to signal the children ... Tijl has created a patch for both FreeBSD and wine that adds a 'thr_kill2()' function that takes process id as an argument, allowing wineserver to talk to the application processes themselves ... Now, I'm not 100% certain in which cases this is needed ... Tijl would be able to explain better ... There are several other problems we've been able to address ... check out the URL I posted, Tijl explains what we've been able to accomplish so far ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGgpkc4QvfyHIvDvMRAlDsAJ9vavgk/5TFKLinSGrTYsKR4avR9ACg1Dw8 sNx+k7P/Nng3TP835CV2CA0= =9/bt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
