Wine, FreeBSD, and PPC

[ArchAngel_Nix]

I am running Gnome on a variant of FreeBSD called Darwin. Darwin runs 
on PPC architecture opposed to x86 architecture. My question is can 
Wine run on this variant of FreeBSD? Can I download the source and 
build Wine for my system? Will Wine work with other processor 
architectures, or only x86? Thanks for the help.

-Mike Holley-
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[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 22:32, ArchAngel_Nix wrote:
> I am running Gnome on a variant of FreeBSD called Darwin.

You're using raw darwin? Or are you really using MacOS?
> Darwin runs 
> on PPC architecture opposed to x86 architecture. My question is can 
> Wine run on this variant of FreeBSD?

Yes..
> Can I download the source and 
> build Wine for my system?

I think so. I know it works on Linux/PPC and FreeBSD. Not sure if they
work together.
> Will Wine work with other processor 
> architectures, or only x86? Thanks for the help.

Well, WineLib will work on other architectures. However, you won't be
able to just download apps off the net and run them, because Wine
doesn't have a CPU emulator. So you could recompile Windows apps if you
had the source code, but most windows apps are closed source, so....
well, up to you really.

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

Hi all!

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:57 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Can I download the source and
> > build Wine for my system?
>
> I think so. I know it works on Linux/PPC and FreeBSD. Not sure if they
> work together.

Hum... In fact I don't think it really works. I attempt to build wine 
on darwin, but there is works need to be done, for example with the 
executable format. FreeBSD and Linux use Elf, whereas Mac OS X/Darwin 
use mach-o. You should probably have a look here:
http://darwine.sf.net/
There is not much for the moment, but I submitted a patch on the list 
to fix issue on the configure/makefile...

An other issue is the tools used. for the moment I am stuck with 
windres, a tool I can't get working on our platform, but necessary for 
building the dlls. I saw that there was a plan to use wine's wrc 
instead of windres is it still in work?

Thanks,

Pierre