Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2013-03-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
I believe there is a resource gap with wine package maintenance - the packages are very behind Dean On 31/03/2013, at 7:31 AM, Durandal wrote: > Is there no possibility of linking Wine with QEMU to provide Windows x86 and > x64 binary compatibility? That would be the killer app for Wine on

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2013-03-30 Thread Durandal
Is there no possibility of linking Wine with QEMU to provide Windows x86 and x64 binary compatibility? That would be the killer app for Wine on PPC, of course, and I would absolutely love to see that accomplished. -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/wine-considered-no

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:07:31PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Just curious why that is? The latest wine built fine on powerpc in > experimental: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=wine&arch=powerpc Does wine include a proper test suite to make sure it can run real world binaries

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:28:20AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Interesting question, as windows did once upon-a-time run on powerpc > (wikipedia says so, so it must be true > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#32-bit_platforms) > > Does someone need to run notepad for powerpc on linux thoug

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-06 Thread Philipp Kern
Aubrey, am Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:44:21PM -0700 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > AFAIK Wine doesn't emulate the CPU (not an emulator). The binaries are > still run as binaries. And almost all Windows binaries are for x86. So > while Wine might be able to compile and run on PowerPC, the Windows >

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-05 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:07:31 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is the right list. I see that wine is in powerpc's > not-for-us list in sid: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=powerpc&suite=sid > > Just curio

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
Interesting question, as windows did once upon-a-time run on powerpc (wikipedia says so, so it must be true http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#32-bit_platforms) Does someone need to run notepad for powerpc on linux though? Dean On 06/06/12 11:07, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure

Re: Wine and WineX !!!

2003-10-10 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 09:12, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En ce doux début de matinée du vendredi 10 octobre 2003, vers > 08:36, Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > >> Any version of Wine and WineX for DebianPPC? > > > Nope: "WINE Is Not an Emulator", it works with windows DLLs and does no

Re: Wine and WineX !!!

2003-10-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce doux début de matinée du vendredi 10 octobre 2003, vers 08:36, Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> Any version of Wine and WineX for DebianPPC? > Nope: "WINE Is Not an Emulator", it works with windows DLLs and does not > translate x86 assembly to anything else - so it won't work.

Re: Wine and WineX !!!

2003-10-10 Thread Colin Leroy
On 10 Oct 2003 at 01h02, SpawnPPC wrote: Hi, > Dear DebianPPC user's, > > I'm Emanuele. > > Any version of Wine and WineX for DebianPPC? Nope: "WINE Is Not an Emulator", it works with windows DLLs and does not translate x86 assembly to anything else - so it won't work. Maybe you want bochs:

RE: Wine

2001-07-06 Thread McNiel, Jeff
g > Cc: debianppc > Subject: Re: Wine > > > I'm sorry to have to tell you this but it just doesn't count unless > you're running Linux. > > a > > "McNiel, Jeff" wrote: > > > > Well, I haven't done that (I haven't yet taken

Re: Wine

2001-07-06 Thread Andrew Sharp
al Message- > > From: Lorenzo De Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:45 AM > > To: debianppc > > Subject: Re: Wine > > > > > > A very strange way to run Windows on Linux...emulate MacOS on > > Linux then run > > VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC. > > Terrible !!!

RE: Wine

2001-07-06 Thread McNiel, Jeff
e that the box is a Mac! I'll have to try the MOL some day... Cheers, Jeff > -Original Message- > From: Lorenzo De Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:45 AM > To: debianppc > Subject: Re: Wine > > > A very strange way to run Windo

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Otto Wyss
> A very strange way to run Windows on Linux...emulate MacOS on Linux then run > VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC. > Terrible !!! > I wouldn't mind running MOL on my PowerPC running VirtualPC to be able to run this silly program if I still were at that firm. Of course I'd prefer

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > wont work on powerpc, wine is not a machine emulator, it actually ends up > > running windows code on the host machine, so it has to be used on an x86 > > architecture. > > But what about winelib? It should be possible to compile winelib on ppc and > then compile windows-software with this wine

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium > > and later the Itanium. He told me that when they were designing the > > pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a > > cray-xmp

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium > and later the Itanium. He told me that when they were designing the > pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a > cray-xmp to run their processor simulator on. A

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
n Linux then run > VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC. > Terrible !!! > > - Original Message - > From: "Wilhelm Fitzpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:17 PM > Subject: Re: Wine > > > > [OFFTOPIC]

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
A very strange way to run Windows on Linux...emulate MacOS on Linux then run VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC. Terrible !!! - Original Message - From: "Wilhelm Fitzpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:17 PM Subject: Re: Wine

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> [OFFTOPIC] Is there a Mac emulation layer similar to wine? Not similar to WINE (at least as free software). There is MOL (Mac-On-Linux) which is similar vmware, in that it allows you to boot MacOS on top of a virtual machine environment hosted inside linux. This will only work on a PowerPC proc

Re: Wine\

2001-06-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Otto Wyss wrote: > [OFFTOPIC] Is there a Mac emulation layer similar to wine? Yes, it's called Mac-On-Linux. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Otto Wyss
> As stated earlier you can't run wine on ppc linux. If you really wanted to > you could install intel linux using bochs and then wine on top, but why > would you want to do that if you just want to run windows running Windows it > would be much easier to install Windows on bochs. > It would be n

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:08:43PM +0200, Fabian Jakobs wrote: > > But what about winelib? It should be possible to compile winelib on ppc and > then compile windows-software with this winelib. I am thinking of software > like kylix or Corel Photopaint, wich were ported to Linux using winelib bu

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2001 11:23 schrieb Steven Hanley: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:11:27AM +0200, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > > I'm looking for Wine, but all binaries that I've found are for i386 only, > > there is a porting for PPC ? I've looked to: > > > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/otheros

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:23:53PM +1000, Steven Hanley wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:11:27AM +0200, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > > I'm looking for Wine, but all binaries that I've found are for i386 only, > > there is a porting for PPC ? I've looked to: > > > > http://packages.debian.org/stable

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Daryl Moulder
As stated earlier you can't run wine on ppc linux.  If you really wanted to you could install intel linux using bochs and then wine on top, but why would you want to do that if you just want to run windows running Windows it would be much easier to install Windows on bochs. Daryl Moulder --  - Wh

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
However for running Wine I need to install first bochs then Wine ? - Original Message - From: "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debianppc" Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Wine

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:23:53PM +1000, Steven Hanley wrote: > > If you want to run x86 stuff on powerpc you will need an emulator such as > bochs or plex86, both of these woudl in theory work on powerpc, dont know how > well though. not plex86, its the replacement for vmware, it doesn't emulat

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Steven Hanley
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:11:27AM +0200, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > I'm looking for Wine, but all binaries that I've found are for i386 only, > there is a porting for PPC ? I've looked to: > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/otherosfs/wine.html > > in the download page: "Download Page for wine_