Wine and FreeBSD how to
Micah
micahjon at ywave.com
Tue Aug 8 04:52:16 UTC 2006
Gautham Ganapathy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 06:28 -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote:
>> I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file
>> anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine
>> successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD how to? Or
>> something similar. I told my 7 year old I would load a game for him
>> and wanted to look for an easy how too.
>> Sincerely,
>> Joshua Lewis
>>
>
> Run 'wine' once from the shell for it to generate the .wine directory
> under $HOME. Then, try using 'winecfg' for configuration
>
> However, so far I have not been able to get anything more complex than
> notepad running under wine on freebsd-6.1-release
>
> Regards
> Gautham
There's a nice technical discussion of WINE vs FreeBSD over on hackers@
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-July/017323.html)
that talks about why wine doesn't work. Supposedly if you set up wine to
emulate Win2K it'll work better, but not perfectly (like WINE ever
worked perfectly :) and there are patches in the pipeline that'll help
with some other problems.
HTH,
Micah
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