Category: cross-platform

cross-platform development

WineBottler | 1.5.29

by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in c/obj-c, cross-platform, ies4osx, wine, WineBottlerTagged , , , , , , ,
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WineBottlerFirst I'd like to shout out a loud "Thank you!" to all the supporters over the last years, especially the last month. You made me not drop the ball... and here I stand now, not with one new version of WineBottler, but with two 🙂

I happily raise the curtain for:

WineBottler 1.4.1
I showed of a very early version of it once. One of the main features is, that it hides X11 by writing a custom xinitrc for every bottled app. This way, every app has it's custom X11 environment, with icon and menu. You can cmd-tab between the apps like with every other app. Additionally, there is a tool-menu with the most important tools like filemanager, configuration and winetricks.

WineBottler 1.5.29
But somebody pushed me to adapt it to Wine 1.5.29 because of the new Mac driver. So here we are... pushing WineBottler 1.4.1 to obsoleteness in the very same post. What is the Mac driver, you ask? It's the replacement of X11 in Wine for the Mac, which is great news, as X11 is an optional install on OS X now. I did not yet add the menus I normally have in the bottled Apps, as this will force me to break the "non patched wine" policy I had for years now. But we will see, how this evolves.

WineBottler_1_5_29

Update your current version of WineBottler and Wine.app by downloading the new versions from winebottler.kronenberg.org
As 1.4.1 is still the stable version, you manually have to download 1.5.29. 1.5.x have their of appcast for future updates.

I'm currently revamping the WineBottler website, please be patient with me, if something is not in its place during the next days.

enjoy
Mike

Wine | 1.4.1

by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in c/obj-c, cross-platform, wine, WineBottlerTagged , , , , , , , , ,

Long time no see 🙂

This time we got two fresh Wine builds, one for Lion and Mountain-Lion, and one for Tiger, Leopard and Snowleopard. Because of ongoing development, I had to make a cut somewhere. The Lion version comes with better System support, and the bins are codesigned, so they should behave somewhat with gatekeeper. The Tiger version lacks audiosupport, because the wine project decided to move their coreaudio-support to the next level - and i don't know, if it will be possible to compile for Tiger in the future. Both version support the current winetricks.

Just update your current version of wine by selecting "Preferences..." from the Wine-Glass Icon in the Statusbar, or download it manually from
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/
(The Tiger/Leopard-Version is only available as manual download for now).

Here is a list of all the libs and the changes to the libs.

enjoy
Mike

Wine 1.2.1

by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in cross-platform, wine, WineBottlerTagged , , ,

Quick update:

First, Thank you very much for all the feedback, books and donations lately. I'm in the process of answering as many mails as time allows. For the books: Amazone does not give out the donators name, so forgive me, if I'm not able to thank you personally... I really appreciate it and I enjoy the reading - NO, this does not take away time from WineBottler 😉 .

Second, compiled Wine 1.2.1, you can find it here:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/

Third: WineBottler 1.2 and Wine 1.3.x builds are on hold until November. A big project of a customer hits a major milestone on October 27th. (That's the WorldDidact in Basel, Switzerland, if you happen to be close, meet us at the Ingold/profax booth 😉 ).

Yours
Mike

Finally: still causing trouble...
Adobe is updating flash at an increased rate. This leads to a lot of sha1 mismatches, as the winetricks team is always some hours behind an update. So your installation of ie6 or steam might fail because of that. I will remove Flash from the default installation in WineBottler 1.2. You'll be able to install it with WineTricks if needed.

Wine 1.2

by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in c/obj-c, cross-platform, ies4osx, wine, WineBottler

So, Wine 1.2 is out now... faster than I thought.

It really became a lot more stable, but there are some new issues as well. Some noticed the black or garbage background of some icons and images. These are related to Apples X11. Upgrading XQuartz would be one possibility. For now I reverted the patch, that caused that behavior, until Apple updates it's X11.

Further refined the "theme" of MatthiasF, (it's applied by default). It was to dark, so a opted for the OS X unified look, by just darkening the Menubar. Menues ar now white and blue, and sport a bigger font... sorry, no Lucida Grande, yet.

Fixed some bugs with Winetricks.

Outlook
I will further develop "1.2" to refine some things. 1.2 will remain available on Tiger (0.4% users ;)). But 1.3.x will only be for Snow Leopard users (77% users), as a Leopard build would just combines the bad from Tiger and Snow Leopard.
I have nearly finished 1.2 of WineBottler, which should work on Snow Leopard and Leopard. Please bear some more hours/days with me.

Just update your current version of wine by selecting "Preferences..." from the Wine-Glass Icon in the Statusbar, or download it manually from
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/

Here is a list of all the libs and the changes to the libs.

enjoy
Mike

PS.
Adobe is updating flash at an increased rate. This leads to a lot of sha1 mismatches, as the winetricks team is always some hours behind an update. So your installation of ie6 or steam might fail because of that. I will remove Flash from the default installation in WineBottler 1.2. You'll be able to install it with WineTricks if needed.

Wine 1.2-rc7

by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in c/obj-c, cross-platform, ies4osx, wine, WineBottler

Found the bugger that prevented me from building Wine. I did not test this very intensively, but according to WineHQ, this is going to be the last rc.

I've added a "theme" by MatthiasF, that matches the Leopard window-colors. It's a little bit darker 🙂

Just update your current version of wine by selecting "Preferences..." from the Wine-Glass Icon in the Statusbar, or download it manually from
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/

Here is a list of all the libs and the changes to the libs.

enjoy
Mike

PS.
Adobe is updating flash at an increased rate. This leads to a lot of sha1 mismatches, as the winetricks team is always some hours behind an update. So your installation of ie6 or steam might fail because of that. Maybe I remove Flash from the default installation.