Darwine

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Darwine
Developed by Darwine Project
Latest release 1.0.0 / 2008-06-17
OS Mac OS X, Darwin
Type compatibility layer
License GPL/LGPL
Website http://darwine.sourceforge.net/

Darwine is a port of the Wine libraries to Darwin and Mac OS X.

Darwine was originally intended to support compiling of Win32 source into Mach-O/PowerPC binaries for Macintosh computers. The project is now combining Wine's program loader with QEMU, an x86 emulator, to allow running of Win32 binaries on Mac OS X for PowerPC.

However, Darwine's focus shifted due to the Apple Intel transition. Darwine on new x86 Macintosh computers can run Windows programs (if compatible with Wine) natively - resulting in speeds comparable to Mac specific programs.

The Darwine project mysteriously stopped late 2006, but was later revived and updated in mid 2008 by other developers. Version 1.0 was released on June 17, 2008, the same day as version 1.0 of Wine.

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[edit] Known flaws

As the release of Darwine 1.0 is very recent, information regarding bugs is scarce.

[edit] See also

  • CrossOver Mac, a proprietary software package that uses Wine to run Windows applications on a Mac.

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