diff --git a/documentation/faq.sgml b/documentation/faq.sgml index 3a9ed13f735..9ec16e42f71 100644 --- a/documentation/faq.sgml +++ b/documentation/faq.sgml @@ -645,16 +645,22 @@ - Wine is being developed specifically to run on the Intel x86 class of CPUs under certain UNIXes that run on the x86 platform. - Winelib however is capable of porting Windows program source code to other platforms also, not only x86. + Wine is being developed specifically to run on the Intel + x86 class of CPUs under certain UNIXes that run on this + platform. Winelib however is capable of porting the Windows + applications source code to other platforms + also, not only x86. - Thus running Windows programs via Wine on other platforms (e.g. MacOS X) is not possible; the only way to run Windows code - on MacOS X would be to take Windows program source code and recompile it for e.g. MacOS X using Winelib. + Thus running Windows binaries on other platforms (e.g. Mac OS X on + PowerPC) using just Wine is not possible. You + would have to either run Wine in an emulated x86 environment or + take the Windows application source code and recompile it using + Winelib. - The following will list the x86 operating systems supported by - Wine; Winelib support for other platforms keeps evolving, + These are the platforms supported by Wine. + Winelib support for other platforms keeps evolving, so it's not specifically listed here. @@ -667,13 +673,23 @@ commercial UNIX and UNIX clone vendors as well. - BeOS: porting efforts used to be pretty strong, but BeOS has severe - limitations in Unix call support, so a port will probably never - happen. + BeOS: porting efforts (BeWine) used to be pretty strong, but BeOS + has severe limitations in Unix call support. The demise of Be + further hampered the project though it might come back one day on + one of the open BeOS projects. In any case a functional port seems + unlikely to ever happen at this stage. - FreeBSD: Should work, with limitations in specific areas (mainly - missing device/hardware support). + Mac OS X / Darwin: The Darwine is + currently working on porting Wine to the Darwin/x86 platform. Their + goal is to eventually make it possible to run x86 Windows + applications on Darwin/PPC and then Mac OS X by using Bochs. + + + FreeBSD: This port is well maintained and should work with + limitations in specific areas (mainly missing device/hardware + support). Linux/x86: Works, and as the most popular platform for both