Running FEMM 3.4 on Linux under WINE

Running FEMM 3.4 on Linux under Wine

FEMM can be run on Linux machines using Wine. An archive is available which contains FEMM 3.4.2 executables and source that have been modified in small ways to work around imperfections in Wine. Knoppix 3.7 with Wine 20040813 was used as the test platform. The only change noticeable to the user is that the materials library has been rolled back to the v3.3 form--the tree used in the v3.4 version causes the program to hang when it runs in Wine. Overall, there appears to be no significant speed difference running natively on a Windows machine versus running on a Linux machine under Wine.

To get the program to look right visually, you will also have to find copies of arial.ttf and symbol.ttf and install them in Wine's windows/fonts directory.