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ies4osx 2.99.0.1-4

May 30, 2008May 30, 2008 by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in c/obj-c, cross-platform, ies4osx, wineTagged ies4osx wine ie Internet Explorer for OS X

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This one was due for some time!

But I simply was not finding a showstopping bug, when run outside XCode.
So for the afterworld: If you happen to pipe output from a script started with NSTask, "ps" will act as "ps A" if run inside XCode and as "ps" if run in liberty (i.e. You'll see all processes in XCode, but not if released).

What's new?

New launcher for Internet Explorer. Much lighter and it will terminate all instances of wine and wineserver (read all Windows Programs) before lauching a new copy of Internet Explorer. This is mainly to get rid of hanging internet Explorers.
Error checking and progressmeter for downloads. This is a try to prevent incomplete installations. Unfortunately, the MS server for the ActiveX controls will still turn you down, half of the times, but at least you know it, now.

Best run with a new copy of Darwine-1.0rc2! 😉

You find ies4osx here:
www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx

Mike

Darwine 1.0-rc2

May 29, 2008 by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in c/obj-c, cross-platform, ies4osx, wineTagged wine os x

//www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

For Tiger and Leopard

Some words about rc2:
Loads of bugs where fixed in rc2... so I thought I could play a little and add some more libraries to the package: xml, xslt, fontconfig, jpeg, png and OpenGL. Please test and feedback. Png and jpeg will help with missing icons and images, fontconfig will provide usable replacement fonts out of the box. I need xml for some of my tools ;). Don't get overexcited over OpenGL, it still segfaults and is compiled in only for testing reasons - if you must try: use the latest xquarz (I don't know what changes are included with OS X 10.5.3).

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

Apples X11 1.1.3
Freetype 2.3.5 (included)
FontForge 2008.04.29
libxml2 2.6.32 (included)
libxslt 1.1.24 (included)
zlib 1.2.3 (included)
libpng 1.2.29 (included)
libjpeg 6b (included)
fontconfig 2.5.93 (included)

Happy testing!

Darwine 1.0-rc1

May 13, 2008May 14, 2008 by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in cross-platform, ies4osx, wineTagged wine darwine trix

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