wine users - Sep 2009 - Wine on Snow Leopard: dumbed-down help needed

Hi, all. I just got a fresh new hard drive on my white MacBook and installed
Snow Leopard (10.6). I was a happy Wine user when I had 10.5, but now I
can't get Wine to install. First I tried to install wine-devel with
Macports, which failed because it couldn't find the 32-bit Freetype
libraries. I then downloaded the latest source and did the whole
"./configure" and "make" bits, but I didn't install
because it issues a bunch of warnings about no support for basic things like
jpeg and mp3. I don't want to bother with Wine if I can't view most
image files or listen to most of my music files. I just want to get a basic,
functional version of Wine so that I can use audio, graphics, and possibly video
software designed for Windows. No fancy videogames or anything. I've read
other threads on this but can't find any instructions that are basic enough
for me to follow. Please help if you know how to do this. If it's not
possible, I'm willing to just reinstall Leopard. Thanks in advance!

On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:57 PM, toiletresin wrote:
> Hi, all. I just got a fresh new hard drive on my white MacBook and  
> installed Snow Leopard (10.6). I was a happy Wine user when I had  
> 10.5, but now I can't get Wine to install. First I tried to install  
> wine-devel with Macports, which failed because it couldn't find the  
> 32-bit Freetype libraries. I then downloaded the latest source and  
> did the whole "./configure" and "make" bits, but I
didn't install
> because it issues a bunch of warnings about no support for basic  
> things like jpeg and mp3. I don't want to bother with Wine if I  
> can't view most image files or listen to most of my music files. I  
> just want to get a basic, functional version of Wine so that I can  
> use audio, graphics, and possibly video software designed for  
> Windows. No fancy videogames or anything. I've read other threads on  
> this but can't find any instructions that are basic enough for me to  
> follow. Please help if you know how to do this. If it's not  
> possible, I'm willing to just reinstall Leopard. Thanks in advance!

First things first:

10.6/Snow Leopard came out less than a week ago.  Be patient, as there  
are kinks to work out.  If Wine is an absolute must for you, rollback  
to 10.5 if you must.  If you're using MacPorts packages, you might  
file a bug report with the maintainer with any relevant info.  They'll  
likely be able to fix it faster given enough reported problems.

Apple changed a number of things with Snow Leopard, the most visible  
Wine-facing portion being the compiler's default output of 64-bit  
code.  You can specify compiler flags to force 32-bit code generation:

   gcc -arch i386 -m32

Note also that MacPorts installs a lot of Wine prereqs that you will  
need to compile yourself.  The (non-exhaustive) list I use is:

   Freetype - freetype-2.3.9.tar.bz2
   GSM        - gsm-1.0.13.tar.gz
   JPEG       - jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
   libpng      - libpng-1.2.39.tar.gz
   libxml2    - libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz
   libxstl       - libxslt-1.1.24.tar.gz
   mpg123  - mpg123-1.9.0.tar.bz2
   tiff             - tiff-3.9.1.tar.gz

These all have to be compiled 32-bit by specifying compiler flags as  
above.  If you're not comfortable with compiling and installing  
packages from source, there's not much simple help anyone can give you.

   ryan woodsmall
     rwoodsmall at mac.com


"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch." - Garrison Keillor

Thanks, I would like to try this. Where and when am I supposed to type those
compiler flag settings? This is something I've heard of but am not sure how
to do. Would I type that into the terminal at some point during the installation
process? If so, which directory should I be in? Would it be before or after
"./configure"? Or is this something I need to use a text editor to
change in one of the downloaded files, prior to making any terminal commands?
Thanks!