Category: ies4osx

Darwine 1.0-rc1

by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in cross-platform, ies4osx, wineTagged
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So here it comes, wine rc1!

//www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

For Tiger and Leopard

Some words about rc1:
Jeremy White on wine-devel about rc1:

We had a big push by people to get features in prior to the freeze, so a lot of new features went in right before the freeze. Now we have to shake out the regressions and fix them.
That process is a PITA, and usually takes a few weeks.

So what to do if the app does not work anymore? From wineqh:

This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.0. Please give it a
good testing to help us make 1.0 as good as possible. In particular
please help us look for apps that used to work, but don't now. See
http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt for details.

People say that 0.9.58 is the most stable atm!

About my builds:
My builds are not vanilla Darwine. I added a X11 startupscript and dynamically link against freetype lib, which I store inside the wine.bundle. This way, I don't have to install libs and symlinks directly on to your system. Read: if you remove the Darwine folder, they are gone, too.

Other files you want to delete, if you decide to remove wine completely:
~/Library/Preferences/org.wine.winehelper.plist
~/.wine

About OpenGL:
It's not working on OS X. Sorry. It's because of a bug in Apples X11 (which is still present in XQuartz 2.2.1), not wine.

Includes TRiX 0.9.3, which is a OS X frontend to Dan Kegels winetricks, to install some essential fonts, libraries or runtimes.

Darwine Built against

Darwine 0.9.55

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

//www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

For Tiger and Leopard

Built against:

ies4osx will become ies4mac

by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in cross-platform, ies4osx, wine

after a troublesome but none the less joyfull weekend, finally some other good news:

Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior, the father of ies4linux has included all the OS X fixes from ies4osx into ies4linux. He is about to include a platform-independent GUI and some more features.
This way, Mac people are going to instantly profit from all the improvements to ies4linux and it's big user-base. I hope I do not spill to many beans by saying there will be a new forum to exchange problems and how you tackled problems you encountered.

I will continue to help with the project, as I joined the development of ies4linux.

As stated, ies4linux 2.99 is commandline only, yet. I'm looking forward to the first GUI release.

Mike

Provider Mayhem [updated]

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

just to inform:

My provider promised "unlimited traffic", but they took my site offline.
I'm looking for a new way to distribute Darwine now.

Yes that means no Darwine downloads for the moment.

[update]
Thanks to Takumi and Jay I can provide two mirrors for now! Thank You very much!
//www.kronenberg.org/darwine

ies4osx 2.5beta6_4 [updated 2]

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

First,
let me thank You for all the feedback, bugreports and suggestions! I really appreciate it.
ies4osx had a little more exposure than usual during the last days. It showed that loads of people moved on to Leopard, what led to some frustration, as darwine an thus ies4osx was not working as expected.

Now with Darwine 0.9.49 Darwine 0.9.49_2 and ies4osx 2.5beta6_4 I hope I can better serve that need. Sorry, still no PPC solution (if You are interested, You should bug this guy).

Please note, both are still in very early stages for Leopard... so please tell me if it works for you. The whole setup is NOT tested on Tiger as stated in the last post.

Two request that where made more than one time:

  • use the wrapper of ies4osx to install other Windows Applications as .app packages (gives me some headaches on how to define the desired executable after installation 😉 )
  • install interesting windows components similar to Dan Kegels winetricks.

enjoy
Mike

[Update]
As I feared, this Darwine-x86-0.9.49 is only working on Leopard atm. Users of Tiger should use Darwine-x86-0.9.48 for now.

[Update 2]
Here is a new .49 Darwine Build, that works for me on Tiger and Leopard:
Darwine-x86-0.9.49_2