Listen to me wine

[worker201]

Just for kicks, I tried to install Wine on my Mac last night.  The configure went just great, and the dependencies were made just fine (I have a lot of open source libraries installed).  But the actual compile failed at like the first line.  CPU unsupported!  How lame is that?  More to the point, what kind of configuration program will pass an unsupported architecture?  I mean, the first thing configure noticed was that I was using Darwin on PowerPC.  And it never bothered to think that might not be okay?

Fortunately, there are a couple of free OS emulators out there.  I got this one called QemuX which looks promising.  If only I can remember where I put that damned Win98 cd ...

[piratePenguin]

Listen to me whine

Fixed!

EDIT: I hope that wasn't supposed to be obvious.

[worker201]

I thought it was rather clever, actually.

[Pathos]

...why can't it compile on a powerpc?

does it have a lot of assembly code?

[WMD]

Fortunately, there are a couple of free OS emulators out there.  I got this one called QemuX which looks promising.  If only I can remember where I put that damned Win98 cd ...

I'm using a different port of QEMU than that (same engine though) on my Powerbook...even at 1.5GHz, Windows 2000 is ungodly slow.  You can hit 100% CPU by dragging the mouse frantically across the screen. :o  I say, find a copy of Virtual PC.

[mobrien_12]

I imaginge Wine CAN build on PowerPC but there are safeties in the makefile to keep you from wasting your time because it won't run on PowerPC.  It's not an emulator, it's a compatability layer.  In other words, it provides the needed libraries hooks etc etc so windows x86 code can run on x86.  No x86 emulation is provided.

It's one of the FAQ points of Wine from what I remember.  

When MacIntosh moves to Intel chips next year, this may become a non-issue.

[worker201]

I'm using a different port of QEMU than that (same engine though) on my Powerbook...even at 1.5GHz, Windows 2000 is ungodly slow.  You can hit 100% CPU by dragging the mouse frantically across the screen. :o  I say, find a copy of Virtual PC.

Except Virtual PC is a :fu: MICROSOFT PRODUCT :fu:

For the program I want to run, a Lego model editor, win98 should be fine.

[WMD]

The solution to that is to find a pre-MS copy of the program.  They bought it, after all.