Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:34:04 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course) Message-ID: <1182958444.1511.35.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <D88AD3F4C90A1731E8088EBB@ganymede.hub.org> References: <D88AD3F4C90A1731E8088EBB@ganymede.hub.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 11:15 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative > obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around WINE. > We have a few kernel hackers involved, some members of the wine group, some > members of PC-BSD, and at least one DragonflyBSD developer ... a truly rounded > group. > > In order to avoid having this all mixed in, and lost, with other software > discussions, the work is happening on a private list, but if anyone feels that > they can contribute *programming knowledge* to the effort, email me and I'll > add you to the list ... we aren't looking for testers on this list, see below > about that ... > > To the real reason for this post, we have been slowly making headway ... > > If you go to: > > <http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine>; > > You will find several patches, both against FreeBSD and wine, that get the > latest wine working under both 7.x and 6.x ... under 6.x, the only 'gotcha' is > don't apply the signal patch yet, as it does break things ... > > For testing, Tijl is running 7.x and I am running 6.x ... in my case, with all > patches applied, except the signal patch, I can get Freecell running ... in his > case, with all patches applied, he can get MT4 running (MT4 is an online > financial trading piece of software) ... > > For those that are interested in Wine, and are going to test the above patches, > please subscribe to freebsd-wine-users@hub.org by sending a message to > freebsd-wine-users-subscribe@hub.org ... it will also let us gauge how > big/small the 'wine users' population happens to be ... > I wasn't aware there was such a big problem with Wine + FreeBSD - is it just chance that I've experienced absolutely no errors at all running Lotus Notes R5 with wine from ports? FreeBSD zoot.mintel.co.uk 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Jun 5 14:39:27 BST 2007 root@zoot.mintel.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOOT i386 $ wine --version wine-0.9.36 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGgoNslcRvFfyds/cRAvQpAKCihMiD7zyiQW0uK4fWWrAq4PalxgCcDCG5 3+/H+lhOT8kgSxwyjRNB72w= =qBOe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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