BBO for Mac

[pclayton]

One of my, er, partners, is an artist that insists on using a Mac and I know BBO doesn't work for Mac.

 

Reading some of the older posts, Uday discusses "CrossOver" and "Parallels".

 

We downloaded a demo of CrossOver and BBO started to install nicely, but at the very end, the 'setup.exe' file would not execute.

 

Does anyone have have any direct experience in using CrossOver?

 

Thanks.

[uday]

Suggest use the beta of the flash version instead

 

http://www.bridgebase.com/v2beta

[Aprosenf]

After a long and tedious process, I finally got BBO (mostly) working on my Mac using Wine. Here is what I did:

 

0. You need a Mac with Intel chips and OS X >= 10.4. It will not work with PowerPC Macs or earlier versions of OS X.

1. Download the source for Wine from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.0-rc4.tar.bz2

2. Download Xcode version >= 2.4.1 (I downloaded 2.5) from http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ . You will need to register with the Apple Developer Connection to do so, but that is free and doesn't take that long

3. Install/upgrade Xcode to the version you just downloaded from the disk image

4. Untar the wine source

5. Run the winebuild script in the tools directory of the untarred source tree

6a. If the configure script (run by winebuild) complains about FreeType and aborts, you need to install the latest FreeType libraries. To do so:

6b. Download the source from http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/...e-2.3.6.tar.bz2

6c. Untar the FreeType source

6d. cd to the FreeType source tree and run "./configure && make && sudo make install"

6e. If that completed successfully, rerun the winebuild script

7. Wine should now be compiling. This will take a long time (at least half an hour), but keep an eye on the output window since something may go wrong. If you got compiler errors in mach.c about x86_debug_state32_t, your Xcode is out of date. Go back to step 2.

8. Download the BBO installer from http://online.bridgebase.com/download/bbo_setup.exe and run it using Wine

9. Get Symbols.ttf and place it in your ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts directory

 

And you should be good to go! Just run "wine NetBridgeVu.exe".

 

It works pretty well for me, except for one (rather annoying) problem: every time I press my mouse button, the window moves downwards about 10 pixels, meaning if I try to press a button, the button moves out from under my mouse, so I have to press the mouse button, move it down a few pixels, and then release it to click on a button. If anyone has seen this problem before and knows how to fix it, I'd appreciate it a lot if you could lend me your solution. I don't know if this is a problem with Wine or Bridge Base; I will continue to investigate.

[barmar]

I've never seen that problem. But I use the commercial CrossOver Mac, rather than trying to compile and install Wine myself from scratch.

[inquiry]

On my mother's mac, they (not me) installed something called (I think) parellel desktop, which runs windows XP. With that installed, everything i have tried so far works fine.. including netbridgevu (BBO)

[Gerardo]

Nice write up, aprosenf. sorry I didn't see that before (Linux here, no Mac; wine occasional hangs here while running BBO, you can just reconnect).