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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--=-xEXXxzq8CuyXzxdzi3BI Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 11:15 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 >=20 > Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative=20 > obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around = WINE.=20 > We have a few kernel hackers involved, some members of the wine group, so= me=20 > members of PC-BSD, and at least one DragonflyBSD developer ... a truly ro= unded=20 > group. >=20 > In order to avoid having this all mixed in, and lost, with other software= =20 > discussions, the work is happening on a private list, but if anyone feels= that=20 > they can contribute *programming knowledge* to the effort, email me and I= 'll=20 > add you to the list ... we aren't looking for testers on this list, see b= elow=20 > about that ... >=20 > To the real reason for this post, we have been slowly making headway ... >=20 > If you go to: >=20 > <http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine>; >=20 > You will find several patches, both against FreeBSD and wine, that get th= e=20 > latest wine working under both 7.x and 6.x ... under 6.x, the only 'gotch= a' is=20 > don't apply the signal patch yet, as it does break things ... >=20 > For testing, Tijl is running 7.x and I am running 6.x ... in my case, wit= h all=20 > patches applied, except the signal patch, I can get Freecell running ... = in his=20 > case, with all patches applied, he can get MT4 running (MT4 is an online=20 > financial trading piece of software) ... >=20 > For those that are interested in Wine, and are going to test the above pa= tches,=20 > please subscribe to freebsd-wine-users@hub.org by sending a message to=20 > freebsd-wine-users-subscribe@hub.org ... it will also let us gauge how=20 > big/small the 'wine users' population happens to be ... >=20 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 --=-xEXXxzq8CuyXzxdzi3BI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGgoNslcRvFfyds/cRAvQpAKCihMiD7zyiQW0uK4fWWrAq4PalxgCcDCG5 3+/H+lhOT8kgSxwyjRNB72w= =qBOe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xEXXxzq8CuyXzxdzi3BI--
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