Boxedwine, or wine_bin?

chaplintokyo · October 13, 2024, 11:43pm

I would like if possible to run Sigma Photo Pro for Windows, which is needed to process the Raw images taken by Sigma digital camera.

Should I try this with boxedwine, or with wine_bin?

Any advice would be very welcome!

cosmogatokat · October 14, 2024, 2:52am

Both works very bad yet in my experience, boxedwine crash a lot, and wine only work with 64bit full lib only, almost every programs need a 32 bit support too…

nephele · October 14, 2024, 11:59am

Both will likely not work too well. BoxedWine uses emulation to emulate linux system calls, and then runs linux wine on it, The “native” wine_bin is pretty barebones, apart from demo applications it does not work all too well yet.

michel · October 14, 2024, 3:33pm

None of the above. If you have a ridiculously overpowered machine, you could try running Windows in a QEMU VM, but port access may be tricky.

Haiku does have its own RAW-aware programs/ports. Try Photivo or Digikam.

chaplintokyo · October 17, 2024, 4:28am

Thanks @michel, @nephele and @cosmogatokat for your advice. I guess it is more realistic to run windows apps in a windows pc at this time. I did try installing digikam btw but for some reason it would not launch, citing that it couldn’t find libavdevice.so.59 library. As for Photivo, the description of it in HaikuDepot made it sound like it would involve quite a steep learning curve, so I was scared off it at this time! Luckily, I still have a Windows 10 installed to a SSD which I can swap in to my Thinkpad’s Ultra dock bay so I was able to boot up windows to develop my Sigma .x3f raw photo files! Thanks all.

Begasus · October 17, 2024, 5:40am

This should be from the ffmpeg5 package that should be available/installed together with Digikam?
Either way, check if ffmpeg5 is installed.

chaplintokyo · October 17, 2024, 7:17am

Well according to HaikuDepot, I do have ffmpeg5.1.4-3 installed, but not ffmpeg5_tools or ffmpeg5_avdevice.

I uninstalled ffpmeg5.1.4-3 and then re-installed it from HaikuDepot again for good measure during which I was told that Haiku was installing package opencv-4.8.0-1-x86_64.hpkg.

But when I tried launching Digikam again, I got the same error about libavdevice.so.59 library.

Begasus · October 17, 2024, 8:38am

It worked for me, just did a install on 32bit, check if ffmpeg5_avdevice is installed (I have that one installed).

kgf · October 17, 2024, 10:43pm

I know Wine worked in the beta4. But since beta5, the windows do not update. If you run winecfg you get a blank window until you drag it off screen and back…then you see the contents.

Does anyone know why?

chaplintokyo · October 18, 2024, 2:18pm

Thanks! I installed ffmpeg5_avdevice and digikam is now able to launch on my 64bit Haiku and I can view my Sigma X3F raw files. Amazing!

chaplintokyo · October 20, 2024, 2:45am

I was able to auto-colour correct and scale and convert my x3f photos to jpeg format, renaming the files too, all in one go, using digikam’s batch queue manager. Turned out to be quicker than using Sigma Photo Pro app on windows… Thanks everyone!

brunobastardi · October 27, 2024, 4:03pm

There is RAW Therapee for RAW images and Luminance for HDR images.

chaplintokyo · October 28, 2024, 1:53am

Would you say using Raw Therapee as a plug in to process raw images in Digikam gives better results than Digikam’s default libraw?

brunobastardi · October 28, 2024, 11:26am

It is not a plug in, it is a full featured app, supporting the Sigma cameras very well. Just try it out! HaikuDepot makes it easy to install and deinstall apps.