On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:57 PM, toiletresin wrote:
Hi, all. I just got a fresh new hard drive on my white MacBook and
installed Snow Leopard (10.6). I was a happy Wine user when I had
10.5, but now I can't get Wine to install. First I tried to install
wine-devel with Macports, which failed because it couldn't find the
32-bit Freetype libraries. I then downloaded the latest source and
did the whole "./configure" and "make" bits, but I didn't install
because it issues a bunch of warnings about no support for basic
things like jpeg and mp3. I don't want to bother with Wine if I
can't view most image files or listen to most of my music files. I
just want to get a basic, functional version of Wine so that I can
use audio, graphics, and possibly video software designed for
Windows. No fancy videogames or anything. I've read other threads on
this but can't find any instructions that are basic enough for me to
follow. Please help if you know how to do this. If it's not
possible, I'm willing to just reinstall Leopard. Thanks in advance!
First things first:
10.6/Snow Leopard came out less than a week ago. Be patient, as there
are kinks to work out. If Wine is an absolute must for you, rollback
to 10.5 if you must. If you're using MacPorts packages, you might
file a bug report with the maintainer with any relevant info. They'll
likely be able to fix it faster given enough reported problems.
Apple changed a number of things with Snow Leopard, the most visible
Wine-facing portion being the compiler's default output of 64-bit
code. You can specify compiler flags to force 32-bit code generation:
gcc -arch i386 -m32
Note also that MacPorts installs a lot of Wine prereqs that you will
need to compile yourself. The (non-exhaustive) list I use is:
Freetype - freetype-2.3.9.tar.bz2
GSM - gsm-1.0.13.tar.gz
JPEG - jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
libpng - libpng-1.2.39.tar.gz
libxml2 - libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz
libxstl - libxslt-1.1.24.tar.gz
mpg123 - mpg123-1.9.0.tar.bz2
tiff - tiff-3.9.1.tar.gz
These all have to be compiled 32-bit by specifying compiler flags as
above. If you're not comfortable with compiling and installing
packages from source, there's not much simple help anyone can give you.
ryan woodsmall
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