Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:55:09 +0200 From: usleepless@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Google Earth on Wine on FBSD6.0 Message-ID: <c39ec84c0604091355v19534f5amf7d24c53cc99a7a@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello All, i just want to share my experiences with Google Earth, and i am curious about other solutions to get it working properly. i compiled wine from the ports tree: $ pkg_info | grep wine wine-0.9.7,1 Microsoft Windows compatibility layer for Unix-like sys= tems i installed Google Earth on an uhhhh machine, and hooked the harddrive onto my FBSD6.0 machine ( looking back, this could have been done with winzip or any archiver ). i experimented a little, read the winehq db info. what i found was, it can work, but your .wine dir has to be very very fresh. i could not directly find out why this is. anybody? so it ended up with this: #!/usr/local/bin/bash rm -rf .wine wine cp Arial.TTF .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts cd ".wine/drive_c/Program Files" ; tar xzf ~/ge.tgz WINEDLLOVERRIDES=3D"usp10,msvcrt=3Dn" wine "c:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth\GoogleEarth.exe" this script assumes: -Arial.TTF in your home dir -ge.tgz in your home dir ( containing "Google/Google Earth/*" ) -you have editted the default_lt.kvw as suggested on winehq changes i am not sure about: my tgz might contains a downloaded copy of msvcrt.dll. i don't think it matters. the result is pretty impressive: text is not spaced properly, but for the rest it works! ( with some quirks ) i am eager to hear about other (cleaner ) solutions. i also tested winword.exe from the other HD btw: worked out of the box. the other office apps did not however. anyway, it was a while since i tried to use wine, and the progress they made impressed me. regards, usleep
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