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Wine & such

March 14th, 2006 | 11:47 pm cdt

Just a quick round-up of small things.

Trying to get wine/Darwine running on the MacBook has been problematic. I’ve gotten wine to compile and Darwine will launch installers for certain applications, but thread issues have kept me from actually running anything. Others sem to have had success, however.

The backend functionality for a widget idea is shaping up. Lots of good PHP action. I need to redesign the front-end and hopefully I can post something for testing purposes soon.

I had to breakdown and see how well the MacBook graphics card performed, so I installed World of Warcraft. Needless to say, it’s smooth as butter.

Merredith and cooked up some spaghetti this evening that was fantastic. Excellent garlic bread as well.

The UTK E-Torch provided links to the Glocker construction webcams. The final product looks nice. The addition that stretches out in front of the stairs that lead to the Spam Building is interesting as well.

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Robin

I could use a bottle of wine right about now...maybe three ;)
Cale

I haven't compiled through Fink, but that sounds like a good idea and worth a try. Some of the posts on the Darwine list have talked about the odd way the OS X kernel handles threads.

On the Linux side, I've had excellent results with wine under Ubuntu, but have had lots of problems with most other distros.
Jim.

Are you compiling natively or through fink's libraries? The difference could be in the libpthread. I don't know what version Apple uses, or maybe they use their own custom thread library that is only roughly compatible with libpthread, which seems more likely since OSX's threading mechanism appears kind of odd. It would also seem odd to me that the Darwin folks would use the same BSD subsystem as Apple. One would think that there would be some upgrades and prerelease stuff since Darwin a testing ground as well as a source release. That's just my random thought on the problem though.

Even under *nix in certain wine versions I would get pthread-related crashes. Of course I couldn't read hex dumps, so I don't recall where the problem lied. Sometimes I think it was overaggressive optimization flags on my part.