From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue May 30 0: 9:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D26637B59B for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 00:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from [128.130.111.2] (deneb [128.130.111.2]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17221; Tue, 30 May 2000 09:09:30 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 09:09:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for Win emulation ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > I'd like to be able to run my required Win apps without having to > dual-boot, if I can at all help it, so am wondering what would be the best > ... Have you tried Wine? I have updated the port over the last two weeks, just one patch (ports/18877 in GNATS) is missing. > ... but, is that about the only thing that I'm going to find > acceptable?:( I'm compiling wine right now, but am not sure if that will > do me any good ... There have been rumors concerning SMP versions of FreeBSD not working and it probably won't compile without a tweak (remove '#define trace _nc_trace' from /usr/include/ncurses.h) on -STABLE and -CURRENT, but hopefully the folks responsible for ncurses will fix this soon. Please let us know any experiences you've made! Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message