I've gotten some very kind help from a few people on this list with compiling WINE for MacOS X. Unfortunately, I'm still having problems. Thomas Kho had been successful, so he pointed me to something he wrote about it. Since I was running 10.5.2 and he was running 10.5.3 of MacOS, we decided I should try again after I updated. So I have, and I am able to successfully build WINE. Unfortuately, it still doesn't run properly.
The first problem is that whenever I try to start any app under WINE (including notepad), it spends several minutes printing messages about building font metrics. Here is a sampling of some of the messages I get:
fixme:font:LFD_InitFontInfo DBCS fonts like '-daewoo-gothic-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-160-ksc5601.1987-0' are not working correctly now. fixme:font:LFD_InitFontInfo font '-mutt-clearlyu arabic extra-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-101-fontspecific-0' has unknown registry 'fontspecific' and character encoding '0' fixme:font:LFD_InitFontInfo font '-sun-open look cursor-----12-120-75-75-p-160-sunolcursor-1' has unknown registry 'sunolcursor' and character encoding '1' fixme:font:LFD_InitFontInfo font '-b&h-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard' has unknown registry 'adobe' and character encoding 'standard' Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than or equal to 2.0.5. http://www.freetype.org
There are lots more messages similar to those, as well as plenty of things like this: Font metrics: 99.6% done
Then when after the message about FreeType, the whole process starts over again, repeating the same set of messages, several times. Then finally notepad will or won't start, and I can't tell why it does or does not, because the last message is always: Font metrics: 100.0% done
According to Fink, I have version 2.2.1-5 of FreeType installed. There is no complaint about it missing during configure or build.
When notepad does start, it seems to work, and I do see text. However, when I try to start the installer for Xilinx ISE (9.1i), all the text is missing.
It would be nice if we could resolve this so I can run FPGA tools on my Mac without having to use Parallels and Windows. Thanks!
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Timothy Normand Miller