Wine works with Mac OS X PPC

[Boey Maun Suang]

On 22/05/2007, at 10:48, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On May 21, 2007, at 15:47, mi demur wrote:
>
>> do you know if Wine works with Mac OS X PPC ?
>> it seems good because there is a ticket in 2002.
>> if no, there are a solution ?

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> However, I expect this will only work on Intel Macs. See to the FAQ  
> on the Wine web site:
>
> http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index#UNDER-WHAT-PLATFORMS- 
> WILL-WINE-RUN
>
> "Thus running Windows binaries on other platforms (e.g. Mac OS X on  
> PowerPC) using just Wine is *not* possible."

On the other hand, the WINE wiki suggests that the Darwine project to  
get WINE to run on Mac OS X/PPC is still going with some success [1],  
and was last updated on Sourceforge at the end of last year [2].  I'd  
agree with Ryan, though, that it's still likely to be alpha/ 
experimental software. (Apologies if I'm insulting your intelligence  
by telling you this; I'm saying it for completeness.)  If I had a  
PowerPC machine, I'd test out Darwine to see whether or not it was  
worth putting a port into the tree, but sadly my old 2001 iBook has  
long since gone.

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

[1] http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwine

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