From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Jan 1 15:35:44 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF98FC97103 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2017 15:35:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from msa1.earth.yoonka.com (yoonka.com [185.24.122.233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "msa1.earth.yoonka.com", Issuer "msa1.earth.yoonka.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F03E17F6 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2017 15:35:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from crayon2.yoonka.com (crayon2.yoonka.com [10.70.7.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by msa1.earth.yoonka.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v01FSKsg000364 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2017 15:28:21 GMT (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Grzegorz Junka Subject: Wine & PlayOnBSD Message-ID: <88ccc43a-d28e-588b-9d3f-01fb3a1c85b9@gjunka.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 15:28:20 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2017 15:35:45 -0000 I am using FreeBSD 10.3 x64. I understand that to run Windows applications on that configuration I can use only one of the following: 1. playonbsd-4.2.10_1 2. wine-staging-2.0.r3_1,1 3. i386-wine-staging-2.0.r3_1,1 4. wine-devel-2.0.r3_1,1 5. i386-wine-devel-2.0.r3_1,1 6. wine-1.8.6,1 7. i386-wine-1.8.6,1 Currently I have installed playonbsd, which is good but it seems that not all applications I would like to install can be installed on it. Which one of those options would give me the most compatibility with office-type and multimedia applications (e.g. DVD player, SoftPhone, applications that access USB), not necessarily games? Should I prefer some of these ports over others for my x64 system? When switching from one port to another (e.g. wine to playonbsd) can I keep the currently installed Windows applications or I would need to reinstall any of the applications/libraries installed on the previous version? It seems that front-end ports (q4wine, swine) default to 4. from the list (wine-devel-2.0.r3_1,1). Is there any reason for that? Can they run without problems on a x64 system? Many thanks for any insights. Greg