wine users - Apr 2010 - Launching an .exe on mac OSX

Hi, I need help with using wine on mac osx. I used to use wine on Ubuntu and
Linux Mint and it was relatively simple. But on mac osx, I used macports to
dowload/install wine, and i used winecfg to create a prefix. I can not figure
out for the life of me how to launch an executable by clicking on it. It opens
in TextEdit instead of launching in wine. Can someone explain to me how to make
a .exe file launch? I can run any .exe in terminal but it is less than
convenient. Thanks in advance.

On 4/14/10 5:10 PM, hamburgertrain wrote:
> I can not figure out for the life of me how to launch an executable by
clicking on it. It opens in TextEdit instead of launching in wine. Can someone
explain to me how to make a .exe file launch? I can run any .exe in terminal but
it is less than convenient. Thanks in advance.
You can't. Not with Wine from MacPorts anyway.

The problem is that no application you have really knows how to open EXE
files. (It's weird that they open in TextEdit; normally you get a "No
application knows how to open 'filename.exe'" message.) If you want
to
double-click on EXEs to open them, you have to create an application
that DOES know how to open them.

It's actually pretty easy to do. All you have to do is create a .app
bundle, put a script inside that invokes Wine, and associate it with EXE
files using an Info.plist file. But that's beyond the scope of this
forum/mailing list.

Or, you could use WineBottler. But be warned: we can't support that
here. If you have a problem and you use WineBottler, you have to go to
the person who makes it for support.

Chip

This is a question you should be asking in OSX forums, since it's about
registering a filetype (EXE) to a specific application (Wine).

Well I searched everywhere for an answer and asked on multiple OSX boards and
cannot get an answer, so I asked here hoping to finally get an answer.

Huh. They should be the ones to help you...

Anyway, a little search on Google gave me this:
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/2428/changing-file-associations-in-osx


Try that on your EXE. ;)

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