Written by Tom Wickline

Thursday, 17 July 2008 06:31

Instead of having to compile or run a script to set Wine or Darwine up fully (fonts stuff mostly), I've packaged everything into a .pkg that installs the latest version of Darwine, FontForge, FreeType, and symlinks fonts from /Library/Fonts to the proper directory for Darwine to use. Enjoy!

These builds are and will always be Intel only. Wine, and by extension, these builds of Darwine do not emulate anything. It is an API layer. For it to run on PPC, it would need to emulate some x86 stuff. This is what Darwine originally attempted to do in combination with QEMU, however it is no longer necessary with the switch to Intel.

Be sure to have the latest version of XQuartz installed. It's just an updated version of X11, so if it's not up to date, its not the biggest deal in the world. But there's usually bugfixes in there that you want to have.

Downloads:

Development (Unstable) build of Darwine 1.1.1 for Leopard, with Freetype 2.3.6 and FontForge py25-20080607.
Development (Unstable) build of Darwine 1.1.0 for Leopard, with Freetype 2.3.6 and FontForge py25-20080607.
Stable build of Darwine 1.0 for Leopard, with Freetype 2.3.5 and FontForge py25-20080607.