Wine (Windows Emulator) is a free and open-source application that aims to allow programs / softwares written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating system such as Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
Run your Windows based Programs on your Mac with these vanilla Wine Builds. They are compiled from the sources of winehq.org and they come as a neat.app with my custom starter. For more info on how these Wine.app Builds are generated, have a look at the Tech Specs. If you need something more powerful, try WineBottler. ⬇ Wine 4.0.1.1. Building Wine. See Building Wine on macOS. Uninstalling Wine. Remove the source tree and binaries. Using Homebrew: brew cask uninstall (selected wine package) Using MacPorts, uninstall the wine package you previously installed: sudo port uninstall -follow-dependencies wine Replace wine with wine-devel if you installed the development version. It works with the following versions of OS X. OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) OS X 10.7 (Lion) OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) It’s a quick download with nothing to unpack or install. Simply run the Wineskin.app file when it finishes downloading. Installing Wine and the Wrapper.
That said if you own Mac OS X based computers, you can run Windows applications such as Notepad, Mikrotik Winbox and more.
In this post I want to show you how to install Wine on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (it should be also applicable for Snow Leopard 10.6, Leopard 10.5, and Tiger 10.4) via MacPorts.
UPDATE: For those of you who have upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion, you will be surprised that Wine will no longer work because Apple removes the X11 from Mountain Lion. The solution is you have to install XQuartz as the substitute of X11. You can download and install the XQuartz from XQuartz project website.
1. Download the MacPorts from its website. Select the appropriate file to meet with your Mac version. Note that you must have XCode and X11 (XQuartz in Mountain Lion) window environment installed in the system.
2. Once it’s downloaded, double-click the dmg file and follow the on-screen installation process. You have to be connected to internet while installing the MacPorts because it downloads the port files in a background process.
3. Once the MacPorts has been successfully installed, check whether the ‘port’ command is already in your PATH or not. In Mac OS X Lion, it should be already in the PATH. Otherwise run the below command to export the port into the PATH.
4. Now we are ready to install the Wine via MacPorts by issuing ‘sudo port install wine’ as follow
It will take a couple of minutes for the port script to retrieve, download, building and then install the wine and its dependency softwares. So be patient!.
When it’s done, you should see something like below:
If there is no error like above, the Wine has been successfully installed on Mac OS X and you are ready to run Microsoft Windows programs.
So I've made the jump, Leapord to Lion, and Lion is pretty sweet for the most part. One thing that is more than annoying is the fact that Wine/X11 don't work. And when they do, it's pitiful. I have some games that I had been playing via Wine/X11 on Leapord problem free, but whenever I try to start something with wine (via terminal) it get's all funky. X11 starts coming on, it bounces, stops, and an error report pops up. Repeat, over and over. Doesn't stop until I restart. Can't force quit. And of course it doesn't open up my programs/games. I used this guide (http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/) and followed it TO THE LETTER. Did everything in it. So can anyone help me? Like I say, using OS X 10.7 Thanks in advance.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
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