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Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / December 2004Wine on the mac
Im wanting to learn Visual Basic so that I can port a bot from windows to the mac. You see I play warcraft 3 TFT. And im wanting a bot to run on my mac while i play a game so I can have a constant channel open and what not. Well I tried looking and couldnt find any. Well I started looking at the ones for winbloze and found they were written in VB6. Well I was trying to figure out the code and couldnt. So I sit down to my winbloze comp and install vb6 on my PC and found an ebook so I could understand the code and maybe come up with a soultion to port a bot over to mac. Well I sit down and wouldnt ya know it my HD for the PC starts clicking and locs up.... I lose all data. And since Im too broke to make a back up im stuck. Well after all that Im investing into a backing up HD and a new HD. And its going to be down the road, with my throwing a rod in my car Ijust bought. Well back when I use to be a linux user I started reading about this thing called wine. Well I was looking into it and found I can install apps (vb6) on it and run them. Well I was looking into is because mac has a terminal as well and based on the unix file structure. Well to no avail they dont have it for mac because it is a unix soulution. and now Im trying to figure out how to install it. I cant find in make files or ne thing, and since it isnt documented for the mac I cant get support. If nebody has ne help or other solutions plz post I just cant get it to install. > Well I was looking into it and found I can install apps (vb6) on it and > run them. Well I was looking into is because mac has a terminal as [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > files or ne thing, and since it isnt documented for the mac I cant get > support. There's a reason Wine isn't available for Macs, and it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Wine is meant for Unix and Linux systems (because Mac OS X is Unix). The reason is simple: Wine emulates the Windows APIs, but not the x86 hardware that they run on. Therefore it only works on Pentiums and compatibles, not on PowerPCs or other CPUs. That pretty much rules out Macs. This is all explained in the Wine FAQ. It's not documented for Macs because it doesn't work on the hardware. You might have some luck using Bochs on a Mac with Wine. Bochs emulates the PC hardware. Install Linux on that, and Wine on _that_, and if you're really smart then you might be in business. However if you want to run Windows code on your Mac, you're probably better off with Virtual PC, if you can afford it.  SignatureTom "Tom" Harrington Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X. Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more. See http://www.atomicbird.com/ > There's a reason Wine isn't available for Macs, and it doesn't have > anything to do with the fact that Wine is meant for Unix and Linux [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Macs. This is all explained in the Wine FAQ. It's not documented for > Macs because it doesn't work on the hardware. Hang on a minute... WINE for MacOS X is called Darwine: http://darwine.opendarwin.org/ It's still early, but there is now an SDK for those interested in porting Windows programs to Darwin or MacOS X. Rod rodj at zafo.com > > There's a reason Wine isn't available for Macs, and it doesn't have > > anything to do with the fact that Wine is meant for Unix and Linux [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > It's still early, but there is now an SDK for those interested in > porting Windows programs to Darwin or MacOS X. If you look at the FAQ, you'll see that they basically wrap an x86 emulator into the project to make it work. Darwine builds on Wine, but is not the same project. Also, calling it "early" really makes it sounds better than it seems; someone wanting to use Windows apps on a Mac (as the person I was responding to above was) cannot likely get Darwine to do anything they need yet. SignatureTom "Tom" Harrington Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X. Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more. See http://www.atomicbird.com/ |
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