Wine For Mac Os Sierra

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MacOS High Sierra (10.13) MacRumors attracts a broad audience of both consumers and professionals interested in the latest technologies and products. We also boast an active community focused on purchasing decisions and technical aspects of the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Mac platforms. The Wine development release 5.19 is now available. What's new in this release: Wine Mono engine updated to 5.1.1, with WPF text formatting support. KERNEL32 library converted to PE. DSS cryptographic provider. Windowing support in the new console host. A number of exception handling fixes. Various bug fixes. The source is available now. Installing Wine on Mac. This tutorial is for intermediate users who want to install and use Wine on their computer running macOS. You should already know the basics of how to use the command line.

Recently, my employer started offering the option of MacBooks for employee’s workstations.
Although I may be classified as a Windows-adept, I decided to take the plunge (remember to put it back by Tuesday) and move to Mac.

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One of the first questions that pops up will be: how do I run Windows apps on my Mac?

There are, basically, a couple of options:

  1. BootCamp – decide at boot-time what OS to boot into, Windows or MacOS.
  2. Virtual Machine – use MacOS as host operating system, and run Windows in a virtual machine, by installing VMWare or VirtualBox
  3. Wine – Wine Is Not an Emulator – (open-source) software that wraps windows programs for *nix-type systems, such as MacOS.
  4. CrossOver – a graphical shell on top of Wine

CrossOver for Mac is a commercial piece of software, providing a GUI on top of Wine. Although this hides a lot of the sometimes complicated hassle of correctly configuring Wine, a EUR 475,= fee for this service (for a lifetime license, one year runs at EUR 59,=) is in my opinion, well, ridiculous, even though the lifetime license does support the WINE development team and the team at CodeWeavers does a lot of work on the WINE-project itself.

Granted, the “hassle” is there for Wine, still. To have it running succesfully on your MacBook, it has some pre-requisites. I will now run you by my process of installing the software.

Pre-requisites

This guide is valid for MacOS High Sierra (10.13)

1. Install HomeBrew

Homebrew is an excellent piece of software that is comparable with the application managers on Linux systems, such as YUM for Redhat, or APT-GET for Debian-like systems. It will allow you to install additional packages onto your Mac.

I consider this an essential add-on to your Mac and I will omit its installation because, well, if you do not already have this on your Mac or cannot find your way into its installation, this post is probably not for you anyway!

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2. Install XQuartz

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This is one of the dependencies that will not be resolved automatically and therefore needs to be homebrewed beforehand:

Be patient while this runs, as it may pull in other dependencies.

3. Install Wine using HomeBrew

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Now, the business end of things; it is time to pull in Wine:

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There is no ‘cask’ (no UI), hence the shorter command.
Again, be patient, as this may require pulling in additional dependencies.
Updating the configuration may take a while (it did in my case), but after a while, lo and behold:

The Wine configuration screen

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Yay, Windows-like windows!

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See the next post on how to run programs using Wine.

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By the way, I am all for supporting the Wine developers (but not through CodeWeavers). So if you like the software, please consider donating to the project via this link





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