[lug] wine

[Stephen Queen]

> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:45, Stephen Queen wrote:
> > Has anyone on this list had any luck getting wine going?
>
> Yep, I've used it off and on for a couple of years at least.
> Mostly to try out running a Windows version of a modeling package I use
> on Solaris.
>
> > If you did, how did you figure out how to get things going?
>
> With the latest rpms from winehq.com on Fedora Core 2, I didn't have to
> do much fiddling.
>
> The install still didn't work. But, after copying the files over from an
> already installed version somewhere else, and setting the right
> environment variables as the install would do, the software came right
> up.
>
> Speed was about 50%-60% of what the box runs in native Windows. That is
> still faster than the Solaris box we usually use to run the software.
> Line termination issues and other annoyances make running a Windows
> version of the software more annoying that it is worth, still.
>
 Thanks, at least I know i'm not fighting a completely
losing battle. I have found some documentation for what I'm
trying to do, but it is not completely clear yet, what all
has to be done.

Steve