osx and wine?


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In a word, no.

Wine only runs on an x86 processor. It's a "wrapper" that converts windows function calls into linux equivilants (oversimplified I know, but lets not get anal). For functions that wine has not implimented you use the regular old .dll/exe/etc files from your windows install.

The problem should be obvious by now:

your windows code is compiled for x86 systems, and macintosh systems all have powerpc chips.

Someone (with a lot of free time) might want to blend wine, bochs, and apples x11 to make something that _could_ work, but it would be so painfully slow, bloated, and generally crappy that it would be unusable - which is why nobody has bothered to suggest it let alone try. It would also be a very large undertaking. Not only would you be translating system calls and virtualizing an entire environment you'd also have to fully emulate an x86 processor etc.

ATM the best way to run Windows programs under OS X is to use virtual pc.

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