From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 17:41:14 2003 Return-Path: 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 5A7A716A4BF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx04.covadmail.net [63.65.120.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4357E43F93 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 27146 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2003 00:41:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ice.nodomain) (68.164.195.250) by sun-qmail17 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2003 00:41:07 -0000 Received: from ice.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8F0fB6O002371; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@ice.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h8F0fARW002370; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:41:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200309150041.h8F0fARW002370@ice.nodomain> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: haris@haris.demon.nl cc: dan@ice.nodomain Subject: Re: WINE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:41:14 -0000 >> > Does anyone have a nice and simple tutorial on how to > install/configure/run wine on FreeBSD 4.8? >> No. (This is the most direct and accurate answer to the question you asked.) In order to get the most out of Wine, you have to be an expert in both Microsoft Windows and Wine. However, you may be able to get something useful out of Wine with only a moderately severe investment of time and intellectual energy. In a nutshell, to install Wine: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine make install make clean This takes a couple of hours and more than half a GB of scratch disk space on my old machine (and a little over 10 minutes on my new machine!). After you do the "make install", examine the last batch of lines output in the window in which you did the make. You should see block of text beginning with: In order to use Wine on FreeBSD 4.x, you need a kernel with option USER_LDT enabled. You also need options SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG; these are default on FreeBSD 4.x and above. and ending with: For more information, and contact details about the security status of this software, see the following webpage: http://www.winehq.com/ Read this text somewhat carefully. You might want to save it in a file. It mentions some useful man pages, doc files, and a configuration file. Also check out /usr/ports/emulators/linux-winetools. I have never used this port but it looks like it might be useful. I am sorry I can't be more helpful, but I don't think anything else I can write would do you much good. You have to learn about Wine yourself (mostly the hard way). Dan Strick strick@covad.net