divinatum Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 just out of curiosity, with X11 and Fink and all the unix support in osx. could wine be run on osx?? incase you dont know what wine is, http://winehq.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divinatum Posted December 30, 2003 Author Share Posted December 30, 2003 oh, i thought that wine emu's all of that. :huh: oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phildeeze Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Wine Is Not an Emulator ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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