[Gllug] a MAC version of wine.

[Khusro Jaleel]

On 12/29/2011 10:28 AM, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Linux, we have "wine" to run windows programs on Linux.
> Is there a "mac" version of wine, so that we could run "macos"
> programs on Linux?
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James
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Hi James, I used a Macbook Pro exclusively for a year in 2010 and needed 
wine on it to run small programs like "Password Safe" which is Windows 
only. As far as I remember, back then I simply used Macports to get the 
necessary ports and compiled everything (including X I believe but not 
sure) until I got wine and Password Safe working, then I never updated 
the ports again because I didn't want to break anything. It kept on 
working though until late 2010 when I switched over to a Linux laptop.

I didn't go the VM route as that would be pretty resource heavy just to 
start a small program once in a blue moon. As for doing VMs on the Mac 
in general, I found VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox to be nice.
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