From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 9 20:55:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4769516A400 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 20:55:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16B843D45 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 20:55:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l8so741689nzf for ; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:55:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=pq/aZohuD1hYHFuvpe7TeJwbc8+HFLZsoSkCAOakbfURTn/yCuwefyjBpdYQnyuVp16wRGazNSNpuXKaNM8fpz34ak3GR/03zoV+9PaY/gni9MvEGuE+E4F8awnwR3lr+Dwg5SHqEtyk9fvgHW80aB3UxWLXDP575ctghQS2xKE= Received: by 10.37.12.23 with SMTP id p23mr4799538nzi; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.157.10 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:55:09 +0200 From: usleepless@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Google Earth on Wine on FBSD6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:55:10 -0000 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