Re: 16-Bit/DOS Suppor Missing?

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Charles Davis wrote:
> On 7/12/10 2:24 PM, dwarfcricket wrote:
> 
> > Well I thought so, too, but when I try to run it in DOS it says "This program requires Microsoft Windows."    :| 
> > 
> Oh, so it's a Win16 program.
> 
> In that case, there are three things you can do:
> - Run Windows in a VM, like John suggested. But that requires you to
> have a Windows license.
> - Upgrade to Snow Leopard. The reason MacPorts builds without Win16
> support is that Xcode 3.x has a linker that can't handle 16-bit code
> very well. Xcode 3.2, which comes with SL, does not have this problem.
> - Patch the linker. See bug 14920
> (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14920 ) for more info.
> 
> If you pick one of the last two options, though, you'll then have to
> change the Portfile to not pass --disable-win16 to Wine's configure script.
> 
> Chip



Well, I don't have a Windows license, unfortunately.

SO, if I were to go about patching it - how would I change the Portfile?







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