lucertola wrote:>
>Hello,
>
>I'm using Mac OS X (10.5.8) and want to us Wine. I know that there are
no Wine packages available for Macs, so I was
>wondering what the easiest solution would be.
>
There are three things you can do to run Wine on your Mac, assuming your Mac has
an Intel processor.
1. Go to MacPorts or Fink and get the installer package and install it. You
will need to install XCode3.1 from the Leopard DVD.
2. Read through the forums and find the location where doh123 put a pre-built
package with instructions on how to use it.
3. Got to Mike's Massive Mess and download WineBottler. This is a
wrap-around of the Wine product that adds Mac specific funtions.
>Would it be possible/fairly easy to install Linux on a USB flash drive and
use that to run Wine?
No. You would have to install Ubuntu for Mac onto your Mac in order to install
and have an operational Linux install.
One caveat: The Wine product still uses the X11 interface to access Windows
programs. The same is true of Crossover 4 Mac as well. There was an active
project to create a Mac Native interface, but progress has slowed considerably.
I am presently tied up working on adding a function to Wine that supports one of
the programs I use on my Windows machine.
>Thanks for any suggestions,
Here are mine. There may be others that will respond as well.
James McKenzie