[WINEDOCS] add question on Intel MacOS X
Brian Vincent
brian.vincent at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 23:48:13 CST 2006
Are there any other FAQ additions anyone wants to see? There's at least one
other one I was thinking of adding but have since forgotten.
Changelog:
Brian Vincent
Explicitly address Intel Mac OS X.
Index: en/wine-faq.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/wine/docs/en/wine-faq.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -u -r1.15 wine-faq.sgml
--- en/wine-faq.sgml 1 Feb 2006 04:47:04 -0000 1.15
+++ en/wine-faq.sgml 21 Mar 2006 05:45:34 -0000
@@ -591,9 +591,12 @@
<para>
Mac OS X / Darwin: The <ulink
url="http://darwine.opendarwin.org/">Darwine</ulink> project is
- currently working on porting Wine to the Darwin/x86 platform.
Their
- goal is to eventually make it possible to run x86 Windows
+ currently working on porting Wine to the Darwin/x86 platform.
+ Their goal is to eventually make it possible to run x86 Windows
applications on Darwin/PPC and then Mac OS X by using Bochs.
+ In addition, CodeWeavers has focused some of their resources on
+ Intel Mac OS X as well. With a little luck, Wine will be running
on
+ it by the third quarter of 2006.
</para>
<para>
FreeBSD: This port is well maintained and should work with
@@ -606,7 +609,32 @@
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question id="Will-wine-run-on-macintel">
+ <para>
+ I want to run Wine on an Intel Mac OS X (MacIntel) system, will
it
+ work?
+ </para>
+ </question>
+ <answer>
+ <para>
+ (Also see the previous question.) As of March, 2006, simple
+ applications are just beginning to to run on Intel Mac OS X.
+ It's possible in about 6 months we'll see applications running
+ similarly to how they do on Linux or FreeBSD.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There are some complicated issues surrounding Wine on Mac OS X.
+ Working with low-level features, such as signal handling and
system
+ registers, are quite different on Mac OS X. Further hampering
+ the issue are some bugs within the operating system. Beyond
+ that, integration on Mac OS X becomes difficult because it is
+ vastly different than a traditional *nix desktop. Menuing
+ and graphics drivers are just two areas that require a complete
+ reimplementation in order to be functional.
+ </para>
+ </answer>
+ </qanaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="What-minimum-CPU-must-I-have">
<para>
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