Hi As I contribute to Wine often, and build it from upstream (not ports), I would like to warn people that version 5.7 and later are unusable on FreeBSD at the moment.
5.7 crashes on startup due to a major wineserver regression affecting all Linux users too (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49011), but was fixed for 5.8. Both 5.7 and 5.8 however crash on startup on FreeBSD due to another regression which is not fixed yet ( https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49139) and doesn't look easy to fix. Until it's fixed, all future versions of Wine will crash on startup, indefinitely. A third serious problem is some sort of regression affecting font handling, that will hang or crash many applications on 5.8 (an example: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49140). A patch was committed yesterday for one of the issues in that regression (an uninitialized variable), but it's unclear yet whether it fully fixes the problem. Stay on Wine 5.6 for now, and please help fix the FreeBSD-specific bug 49139 if you can. Regards Damjan _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
