LXnav software with OS X / Wine

I've had mixed results with Wine for supporting the LX.

I think it took some registery editing to get it to run. (I remember starting wine with the option to dump WIndows syscalls and then looked at what was happening and then looked in the old Windows registery to see what should have been there.)

Even after doing this, I had to find a laptop with a real serial port to talk to the device. The combination of wine plus a use serial was too much. Even after doing this, only some of he LX functions worked. I could download flights, but to upload a new airspace I still have to revert to the Windows dual boot. There are newer versions of wine now, so this may not still be an issue.

I've heard that legal W7 license keys cost less than $15. This, plus a downloaded W7 boot iso should install and do updates on a VM. That may be the least headaches.

Thanks Marco,
I went down that path, tripping a bit with conflicts with other software - upside is I refreshed my /usr/local. I got the command line "wine" working, but even the GUI install of LXSim I had working before failed. I got a windows popup window that said "CoCreateInstance failed; code 0x8004154". Ok then ... stumbled past about 3 of these to a possibly complete installation. But launching fails with

0009:err:dbghelp_stabs:stabs_parse Unknown stab type 0x0a
0009:err:dbghelp_stabs:stabs_parse Unknown stab type 0x0a
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00000038 at address 0x61b675 (thread 0009), starting debugger...

Looks like it's VMware or Parallels for me.

On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 2:47:29 PM UTC-6, Marco wrote:
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I used: https://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/
Slightly more work but it is also easy to follow.
Parallels is wine, in a commercial way.
I do not run an LX program but use this for SeeYou. Runs OK.

You can try Virtualbox, which is also a virtualisation software but free. You still need a Windows though.