Subject: Re: wine won't build...
To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
From: Paul (NCC/CS). <pts@bom.gov.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/05/2006 09:55:33
pity! thanks though.
i only wanted to run fairly simple apps. so i thought it might be ok.
Paul.
Hauke Fath wrote:
> Am 04.05.2006 um 17:23 Uhr +1000 schrieb Paul (NCC/CS).:
> >when building wine , build fails.
> >I have current pkgsrc.
>
> Even when wine builds, it does not run[0] on NetBSD.
>
> >any ideas ?
> >i need to run a windows program urgently.
>
> Talk a senior NetBSD developer into fixing wine (and the kernel?)[1].
>
> Or, try qemu, but that will cost you a Windows license, and the
> overhead and PITA of maintaining a Windows installation.
>
> hauke
>
> [0] For any decent value of 'run'.
> [1] Wouldn't that be a SoC project?
>
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