MacOS support

[elischiff]

Hi. I am dying to try Picroma Plasma but I have a Mac. Is there any way to get it running on a Mac? Thank you!

[Aws0mee]

no

[Lord-Nightmare]

It should be possible to run Plasma on a Mac running 10.14 (Mojave) or earlier, using wine (and winetricks -q vcrun2010 for the visual c++ runtime needed to run it), but you may need to grab certain fonts from a windows installation to make it work properly, or else all the text will be invisible.
Because Plasma is a 32-bit application, it cannot be run in 10.15 (Catalina).

EDIT: I tried this locally, and while with the latest plasma fip "tweak" patch it ALMOST works, at least here (on 10.13) it crashes with a divide by zero error during the activation phase.

[elischiff]

How do I get all the files for that to make it happen?

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[Lord-Nightmare]

install wine and winetricks on mac, copy the entire c:\windows\fonts folder from a windows installation and put it in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts/ (plasma needs this), do winetricks -q vcrun2010 to install the native visual c++ runtime dlls, then run the plasma installer using wine (or install it on a windows box or vm, and copy the already installed C:\Program Files (x86)\Picroma Plasma directory from the windows installation to your mac), then run plasma using wine plasma.exe

There's an issue I ran into with a divide by zero when it tries to contact the activation server which prevented it from working here, though, but YMMV.

[elischiff]

@Lord-Nightmare Any chance you might be willing to walk me through this? I don't even know where to find 3/4 of what you just described

[elischiff]

Thank you @Lord-Nightmare !

[Lord-Nightmare]

First off, you can't be running Catalina (Mac OS 10.15). If you are, you're SOL. Plasma is a 32-bit application, and Apple made very sure to make it near impossible to run anything 32-bit on Catalina.

Next, you need to install homebrew, which can be done by following the instructions on https://brew.sh/ and use that to install wine and winetricks ('brew install wine' and 'brew install winetricks'). Obtaining the fonts from a windows install is left as an exercise to the reader. Obtaining the picroma plasma installer is also left as an exercise to the reader.

[elischiff]

:D thanks again

[Lord-Nightmare]

I can't help any more here, if you can't find what you need, you're on your own. Keep in mind plasma is known to not work on OSX 10.13 when I tested it following the above instructions, so even attempting to do it might be pointless.

[elischiff]

Sad to hear that. Thanks for the tip though