AOPA Flight Planner - Microsoft only?

Tony Cox wrote:
If you are using Linux or Solaris, have you tried running the
application with 'wine' (www.winehq.com)?
I've tried several Windows native applications on Linux and
had no problems, although I've not yet tried the flight planner.
('wine' is a free Windows API emulator that runs on a variety
of other OS)

It seems to only support Solaris X86, not Sparc. And it doesn't seem
to have support for Mac OSX, either. Nevertheless, I downloaded
the source and compiled it on my Sun (sparc), anyway. It's coming up
with some errors that I might try and figure out on Monday.

--- Jay


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In article , Jay Masino wrote:
Tony Cox wrote:
If you are using Linux or Solaris, have you tried running the
application with 'wine' (www.winehq.com)?

It seems to only support Solaris X86, not Sparc.i

Wine just provides the Win32 API and associated cruft. If you have a
Sparc binary for Windows (unlikely!) then Wine would work with it -
otherwise since your Sparc doesn't do ia32 instructions, you're
buggered unless you have an ia32 emulator.

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Dylan Smith wrote:
Wine just provides the Win32 API and associated cruft. If you have a
Sparc binary for Windows (unlikely!) then Wine would work with it -
otherwise since your Sparc doesn't do ia32 instructions, you're
buggered unless you have an ia32 emulator.

I had a feeling that might be the case, but I was hoping it was a
"real" emulator. The last time I played with wine was when it was in it's
infantile form, and I think the Linux kernel was something like 0.92

--- Jay

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Jay and Teresa Masino ___(_)___
http://www2.ari.net/jmasino ! ! !
http://www.oceancityairport.com
http://www.oc-adolfos.com

In article , Jay Masino wrote:
I had a feeling that might be the case, but I was hoping it was a
"real" emulator. The last time I played with wine was when it was in it's
infantile form, and I think the Linux kernel was something like 0.92

At that time there was a real emulator of sorts called WABI (Windows
Application Binary Interface). I think it was developed by Sun, and of
course it was Windows 3.1 at the time. WABI treated Intel instructions
as bytecode on non i386 systems, and provided the Win3.1 API. I remember
having to use it to read a Word for Windows document when I had an IBM
RS/6000 Model 220 on my desk, running AIX 4.something.

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"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

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Tony Cox wrote:
If you are using Linux or Solaris, have you tried running the
application with 'wine' (www.winehq.com)?
I've tried several Windows native applications on Linux and
had no problems, although I've not yet tried the flight planner.
('wine' is a free Windows API emulator that runs on a variety
of other OS)

It seems to only support Solaris X86, not Sparc. And it doesn't seem
to have support for Mac OSX, either. Nevertheless, I downloaded
the source and compiled it on my Sun (sparc), anyway. It's coming up
with some errors that I might try and figure out on Monday.


I don't think that will work. As I remember, 'wine' is designed around
IA32, at least as far as running native Windows applications is concerned.
If you had the source for the Flight Planner that would be a different
matter...

(It works by actually running code from the Windows application image,
jumping out to emulator code for all Windows API calls, such as system
services and graphic calls. It converts the latter to Unix-style posix calls
and X-windows calls respectively. In typical smart-arse Unix-developer
speak,
'wine' stands for "wine is not {an} emulator", which I suppose is strictly
correct if a little misleading).

If you have Linux SUSE, 'wine' is an optional product that you can just
install from the CD.