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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: worker201 on 11 December 2005, 00:41

Title: Listen to me wine
Post by: worker201 on 11 December 2005, 00:41

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 ...

Title: Re: Listen to me wine
Post by: piratePenguin on 11 December 2005, 00:57

Quote from: Thread Title

Listen to me whine

Fixed! :D

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

Title: Re: Listen to me wine
Post by: worker201 on 11 December 2005, 01:22

I thought it was rather clever, actually.

Title: Re: Listen to me wine
Post by: Pathos on 11 December 2005, 02:47

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

does it have a lot of assembly code?

Title: Re: Listen to me wine
Post by: WMD on 11 December 2005, 04:49

Quote from: worker201

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.

Title: Re: Listen to me wine
Post by: mobrien_12 on 11 December 2005, 17:29

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.

Title: Re: Listen to me wine
Post by: worker201 on 12 December 2005, 01:03

Quote from: WMD

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.

Title: Re: Listen to me wine
Post by: WMD on 12 December 2005, 06:54

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