About a month ago CCP announced support for running EVE Online on Mac using Wine (https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6380823#post6380823)
I am the primary developer on this project, and wanted to express my gratitude to the Wine community for making this possible. This experiment is going well - there have been some issues with getting Wine to run on all the different OS X versions and different hardware configurations out there, but that has largely been resolved (I think) with proper configuration of the build machine producing the Wine build.
My plan is to proactively hunt down and fix any issues our Mac players run into, whether the fix entails digging into Wine source or our own codebase. Ideally everything we do in EVE should just work under Wine, but sometimes a workaround in our code may be easier than hunting down why Wine behaves different from Windows, but being able to debug both sides makes finding workarounds easier. Any fixes I come up with I will contribute to Wine, of course - it remains to be seen if they end up being very EVE specific, as EVE will of course be my main focus.
My plan is also to document my experience along the way at http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/ - if you find this interesting, please leave comments there.
I hope that my initiative with this project meets with your approval, and look forward to working with the Wine codebase and you, the Wine developers in the future.
Snorri Sturluson, Software Architect, CCP Games @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/
Am 11.04.2016 um 15:15 schrieb Snorri Sturluson:
experiment is going well – there have been some issues with getting Wine to run on all the different OS X versions and different hardware configurations out there, but that has largely been resolved (I think) with proper configuration of the build machine producing the Wine build.
WineHQ provides builds for OS X as tar archive which you could repackage if you don't want to build Wine. All imports are rewritten to be position independent and you could just extract the files wherever you want. However, the builds also support X11 and therefore depend on XQuartz which is most probably a no-go for you.
My plan is to proactively hunt down and fix any issues our Mac players run into, whether the fix entails digging into Wine source or our own codebase. Ideally everything we do in EVE should just work under Wine, but sometimes a workaround in our code may be easier than hunting down why Wine behaves different from Windows, but being able to debug both sides makes finding workarounds easier. Any fixes I come up with I will contribute to Wine, of course – it remains to be seen if they end up being very EVE specific, as EVE will of course be my main focus.
It is great that you try to help the Wine project. Adding workarounds in EVE has some disadvantages though. You basically remove the possibility for us to debug the issue since we don't have access to the old version any more. If you run into a problem you can't or don't want to fix on your own, it would be better if you could open a bug report with a test executable (or even better some source code to reproduce the issue). This way someone else can fix the issue in Wine and you can remove the work around again. Please also make sure that the Wine specific workarounds also work on Windows. Otherwise you just depend on a bug in Wine which might be fixed any time. There are already some applications which are now broken in Wine because of this. The developers added workarounds that depended on Wine specific behavior, but the the bug was fixed in the mean time and the software didn't receive an update.
Anyway, thanks for your work so far.
Regards, Michael
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Snorri Sturluson