Wine > 5.6 crashes on startup on FreeBSD

[Damjan Jovanovic]

Hi

As I contribute to Wine often, and build it from upstream (not ports), I
would like to warn people that version 5.7 and later are unusable on
FreeBSD at the moment.

5.7 crashes on startup due to a major wineserver regression affecting all
Linux users too (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49011), but was
fixed for 5.8.

Both 5.7 and 5.8 however crash on startup on FreeBSD due to another
regression which is not fixed yet (
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49139) and doesn't look easy to
fix. Until it's fixed, all future versions of Wine will crash on startup,
indefinitely.

A third serious problem is some sort of regression affecting font handling,
that will hang or crash many applications on 5.8 (an example:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49140). A patch was committed
yesterday for one of the issues in that regression (an uninitialized
variable), but it's unclear yet whether it fully fixes the problem.

Stay on Wine 5.6 for now, and please help fix the FreeBSD-specific bug
49139 if you can.

Regards
Damjan