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Does anyone know if it is possible to use Wine to emulate windows applications under MacOS X? Judging by the POSIX compliance, I don't see why it shouldn't compile, but I don't have a Mac on which to test it.

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It should be possible, though there is no Wine binary for Mac OS X yet

Mailing at www.winehq.com

You can run Windows programs on Mac OS (Classic and X) with VirtualPC by Connectix. This one is not free though, but very stable and matured.

http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc6m.html

Or you could try to find an (older) VirtualPC (with license) on eBay...

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if you already have a windows license you're not using, see about getting the DOS version of virtual pc -- it's about $100 cheaper since you're not buying a windows license . . .

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About wine working on OSX. If there is a version for Power PC linux distro's then you can compile it for OSX, (which isnt likely since no one uses ppc distro's) I might try this if wine has a distro for ppc *nix boxes.

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chaosnet wrote:

(which isnt likely since no one uses ppc distro's)

Ahem, I do (Yellow Dog on a PowerComputing 604e)

It has Wine yes...

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daonlyfreez

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Well could you point out to me on the wine site where i can download wine for ppc distro's? I would love to get it working on Jaguar.
http://www.winehq.com

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Wine is just part of the Linux distro. I don't think there's a separate link for it.

More on Linux on PPC's:

http://penguinppc.org/

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daonlyfreez

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No, it won't work. Unless you can find any win32 PPC apps, that is.

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It seems the guys at WineHQ are working on it...

http://www.winehq.com/index.php?issue=179

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daonlyfreez

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wine actually is not an emulator. What it does is allow applications to make win api calls in linux. you still need a x86 proc to run the apps. Now, you could use an emulator once you are at the point of having the code ported.... the emulation would be of the intel/amd proc and would not be done by wine.

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A search on their site shows lost of talking amongst their developers with the subject line of Mac OS X. They are working hard at porting it.

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Well, what Wine does is 'translate' the Windows API calls that the program you are running sends to the OS Wine is running on. You don't need an x86 for that...

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Apple just announced it's moving to Intel chips, does this mean we could run a version of wine on the new Intel Macs, and now have any PC program on the mac? I think it could work since you wouldent have to emulate the x86 chip, you would just have to emulate the windows API, which is what Wine does, right?

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It will probably mean that you can install a Mac OS, a *nix OS, AND a Windoze OS on it..., maybe even with an 'OSSwitch' option...

So, you wouldn't need Wine at all then...

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Chaosnet... most installlations of modular components in Unix/Linux (i.e. Wine, Drivers, File Systems) are done by downloading the source configuring for the target (./configure), making the binaries (make), and sometimes doing a seperate command to install the binaries (make install, install, etc.).



This is not a very hard process, may people do this to keep the latest of program A or the most current kernel. There are tons of tutorials and in most cases no or little coding is actually required of the user.

Essentially all I can think to tell you is either go from the source, get Yellowdog, or wait for the x86 version of MacOSX.