Make Your Program For Mac With Wine

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If you're using a Mac with the PowerPC architecture, there's is no way Wine would run on your computer. Make sure you're using an Intel-based Mac. There's hardly any other open-source project that makes as much sense as Wine: a great number of Linux users regard it as part and parcel of their everyday computer use and can't even imagine their Linux experience without it.

Version 4.0.2:
  • Can't see Worms 2 intro films as they play (mciavi32 missing support to MCI_MCIAVI_PLAY_FULLSCREEN)
  • No keyboard response in Super Mario 3 remake
  • Regedit randomly crashes when deleting registry keys
  • Shiva Editor/Evochron: Mercenary refuse to run with built-in dinput/dinput8.dll
  • FileAlyzer 1.6.0.4, Affinity-installer-1.6.5.123 can't load PE images (needs imagehlp.ImageLoad and imagehlp.ImageUnload implementation)
  • URLDownloadToFileW does not support FTP URLs
  • LabChart Reader 7.x crashes due to missing wmvcore 'IWMProfileManager2', CLSID '{7a924e51-73c1-494d-8019-23d37ed9b89a}'
  • Warframe (Steam) updater fails to replace 'Launcher.exe', reports sharing violation
  • Face Noir demo crashes on start without native d3dx9_36 ('D3DXLoadSkinMeshFromXof' must return 'ID3DXSkinInfo' interface even with no skinning info present)
  • Rogue Squadron 3D 1.3: Unable to setup controller in-game
  • wine-mono does not appear in 'wine uninstaller' list on a 64-bit prefix
  • GOG.com downloader (.NET 3.5 app) wants wininet.GetUrlCacheConfigInfoA/W implementation
  • Settlers III: mouse not working on start screen and menu (after fixing raw input bug 33479)
  • Mass Effect (1) Steam freezes since Steam Update from 8th of July 2017
  • Older directx games (The Sims, Revenant) - Screen not redrawing properly (needs Set/GetClipStatus implementation)
  • Office 2007/2010 32bit - links not working
  • Inno Setup v5.x based game-installers using 'wintb' plugin fail with: 'Runtime error 229 at ' (Win7+ ITaskbarList3 ThumbBar/Thumbnail semi-stubs needed)
  • Multiple games and applications crash in dwrite due to invalid index access to cluster array (Rekordbox 5.3.0, SpellForce 3)
  • Microsoft Office 365 applications crash on startup (Microsoft AppV ISV virtual filesystem technology requires several native and core API to be hot-patchable)
  • Aruba digital signature crashes on missing hid.dll.HidD_FlushQueue
  • Multiple NSIS 2.x based installers fail due to invalid module handle passed to 'kernel32.FreeLibrary', causing code dll unmapped as data dll (Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.x, ConceptDraw Office 4)
  • Cursor in unity games moving down and to the right one pixel on any mouse interaction
  • Windows PowerShell Core 6.2 Preview 2 for ARM32 crashes due to unhandled trap_no 0 (write watch access causes SIGSEGV)
  • Windows PowerShell Core 6.2 Preview 2 for ARM32 crashes due to ntdll 'set_cpu_context' not restoring Thumb mode during return from exception handling
  • Hauppauge Capture version 36187 crashes during install
  • FFXI + Ashita random crash ingame
  • F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin screen is completely light grey while playing intro movie
  • UPlay fails to start : 'Error at hooking API LoadStringA' (UPlay's hooking engine can't handle ENDBR32 instruction inserted at non-hotpatch API entries due to distro build environments '-fcf-protection')
  • Eventide H9 Control crashes on unimplemented function bthprops.cpl.BluetoothFindDeviceClose
  • Since 3.3 other HID devices than Joysticks not supported anymore
  • Atelier Firis config tool crashes with 'Unhandled page fault on execute access'
  • School days HQ occasional divide by zero
  • Two quotes together (in outer quotes) not parsed correctly in argv
  • Multiple application installers fail in VBscripts due to IWshEnvironment::Item property returning BSTR with embedded null terminator (PostgreSQL 9.3)
  • BigNox VM VirtualBox Support Driver 'YSDrv.sys' (part of NoxPlayer 6.x) crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.MmBuildMdlForNonPagedPool
  • Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 6.0 installer fails with VBScript parser error: parser_lex '_' not followed by newline
  • LINE (Powered by Naver): LINE v5.12.XXX series crashes after few seconds
  • The Sims hangs when opening menus
  • Inquisitor: black screen after start in fullscreen mode
  • PS4 Remote Play installer 2.8.x fails, claims 'You need the Media Feature Pack' (MsiGetDatabaseState is called from a custom action)
  • Freelancer: character glitches in cutscenes after loading a saved game
  • PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 Web installer crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll.wctrans
  • If prefix contains 'windows' drive information not available in 64-bit prefix
  • Power World Simulator installer needs unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiSourceListForceResolutionW
  • SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer (.NET 4.0) fails in CoreLib::GetPhysicalMemoryAmountWmi() (missing 'DeviceLocator' property of 'Win32_PhysicalMemory' WMI class)
  • SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer (.NET 4.0) fails due to missing 'OperatingSystemSKU' property of 'Win32_OperatingSystem' WMI class
  • SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: user can't accept license terms (richedit20 ITextRange::ScrollIntoView lacks handling of 'tomEnd')
  • SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: S7Inst64.exe sub-installer crashes on unimplemented function msvcr110.dll._wcsnset_s
  • SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: AdHocSigner.exe tool crashes on unimplemented functions mssign32.dll.SignerSignEx and SignerFreeSignerContext
  • SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: SeCon tool 'SeCon_Win32.exe' crashes due to hnetcfg 'INetFwRules::get__NewEnum' not initializing out parameter
  • Support msvcp mtx_init 'mtx_try' flag (0x2) to create a mutex object that supports test and return
  • Missing (black) textures in Black & White
  • X-Tension, X-Beyond The Frontier: Dynamic light breaks after opening up a menu
  • Atelier Firis config tool doesn't show up when launched through Steam
  • propvarutil.h: missing extern 'C'
  • Watch_Dogs crashes after intro
  • Multiple Steam games crash with Wine 4.6 (Steam Game Overlay Renderer hook engine requires several API to be hot-patchable) (Sniper Elite V2, Sniper Elite 3, Brawlhalla)
  • Grand Prix Legends: Wheel (Wheel, Gas, Brake) axes inputs aren't recognized
  • Improvements to the 7.1 and 5.1 to stereo conversion
  • msi x64 installation file created by Visual Studio cannot be uninstalled
  • Multiple performance monitor applications fail to display system physical/committed virtual memory usage (Sysinternals Process Explorer v16.x, builtin Taskmgr)
  • widl generates invalid typelib when importing types from multiple typelibs
  • Microsoft Excel 2016 (Office 365) crashes on startup (Microsoft AppV ISV virtual filesystem technology requires kernel32.CreateActCtxW to be hot-patchable)
  • Vocaloid 5 (.NET 4.x app) crashes on startup (needs 'Win32_OperatingSystem' WMI class 'SystemDrive' property)
  • Grand Prix Legends: Only the first two axes are recognized
  • compile error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode

If you are using Mac OS X and want to run Windows applications, the most popular option is to install Windows OS using Bootcamp, or run Windows in a virtual machine. Linux users will know that you can use Wine to install and run Windows applications natively. The good news is that Mac users can run Wine to install Windows applications as well. Wineskin is a Wine-tool ported over to the Mac platform. Check out how you can run Windows applications on Mac OS X.

Wineskin is simply an implementation of Wine at its core. For those who are not sure what Wine (an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is, it is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X.

Installation

The installation is pretty straight-forward.

  • First, download Wine from your Linux distribution’s software repositories. Once it’s installed, you can then download.exe files for Windows applications and double-click them to run them with.
  • How to Open Exe Files on Mac. This wikiHow teaches you how to run Windows' executable (EXE) files on a Mac. To do so, you can either install WINE, which is free software, or install Windows 8 or 10 using your Mac's Boot Camp feature.
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1. Download Wineskin from its website. The latest version as of this post is 2.5.12.

2. Extract the file and move the Wineskin app to your Applications folder. Open it.

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On the first run, there won’t be any engine showing up in the list. Click the “+” button to download and install the latest engine. The engine is required to make the Windows applications work.

Once the engine is installed, you are ready to install Windows applications.

Installing Windows applications

Before you start, make sure you have the executable file of the desired Windows application with you. Note that Wineskin doesn’t support all the Windows applications out there. Check out Wine’s AppDB to see if the application you want is supported.

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1. Click the “Create New Blank Wrapper” button and enter a name for this wrapper. In this example, we will be installing Peazip on Mac.

While creating the wrapper, it will prompt you to install mono package for running .Net applications and Gecko package for running HTML-based apps.

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2. Once the wrapper is created, open it in Finder; right click and select “Show Package Content.”

You should see two folders: “Contents” and “drive_c” and a Wineskin app. Run the Wineskin app.

3. Select “Choose Setup executable” and select the executable file of the Windows application.

The installation will proceed just like it does in Windows.

Running Windows applications

Run the Wineskin app (from the Wrapper folder) again. This time, click “Advanced.” Browse and select the installed application and click “Test Run.” This will run the Windows application.

This is what the application will look like:

Once you are happy with the test run, the next time you can just double click the Wrapper app to open this application.

That’s it.

Conclusion

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If you need a Windows environment in Mac, your best bet would be either using Bootcamp or to run a virtual machine. However, if all you need is a particular Windows application, using Wineskin is a better option (provided that the application is supported). If you have a lot Windows game in your collection, you will be happy to know that plenty of those older games are supported by Wine, and you can now play them on your Mac machine. Enjoy!