Wine is compatibility layer software developed for Unix-like operating systems (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X) by the Wine Team. Wine primarily allows users to run Windows software on Unix-like operating systems. It provides a software library, known as Winlib, which allow developers to compile Windows applications and port it to Unix-like systems. 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. One of the powerful and strongest apps on the app store is iDealwine Wine for Mac which is holding the average rating of 3.1. This iDealwine Wine provides the current version 5.0.0 for Mac to install on your device. Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X WineTools Wine Tools is a Linux tool for Wine to setup a fake windows drive, install/uninstall Windows applications and edit the wine config file.
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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.
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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.
The Darwine project aims at offering users the possibility to run software developed for the Windows operating system on their Mac, without having to use a virtual machine. To make this possible, Darwine includes a port of the Wine app, and other supporting tools. Easy to install Wine port for macOS.
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.
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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!.
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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.
You can look up the list of programs that are compatible with the original version of Wine by clicking here. You will find games such as Final Fantasy XI, Guild Wars, Half Life II, Command & Conquer 3, and Counter-Strike, and programs such as Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3, AutoCAD2008, Visual Studio .NET 2008, and 3D Studio MAX. That being said, not all of them work just as well.
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The official version of Darwine, which is currently obsolete, can be found on its website. Click hereto access it. There is also a comercial version of Wine called CrossOver.