Wine-ing in OSX
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One of the more ambitious projects ever to see a beta release - Wine - runs on the Mac. With caveats - it's a pain in the arse to get working.
- Remove Apple's X11 if you want any chance of using 3D.
- Get Fink and install x.org 6.8.2 and applex11tools.
- Install FreeType and FontForge by your favourite means (I suggest MacPorts).
- Download the Wine source - you could use the Darwine Mac OS X wrapper for Mac-ish goodness, but you'll need to hack the script to do the configure change below.
- Run configure for Wine using LDFLAGS='-framework CoreServices' ./configure --prefix=/usr/local (or where ever you so wish). The link to CoreServices is needed to stop one of the Font Tools failing.
- Configure should complete without warnings, otherwise panic.
- Run make depend && make && sudo make install
- Finally, run using DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib wine <program> - if you installed FreeType elsewhere then substitute that location for /opt/local/lib. Even better, encapsulate this part in a script.
At this point you should have a Wine installation that runs Steam. Wasn't that simple?