Greetings, I have a windows program that i would like to run on the Mac. It is my understanding that i could install Wine on the Mac. And then my windows program will run from there. Is that how it goes? I am concerned about the complexity of installing wine on mac, and all the 'other stuff' it needs. How much 'other stuff' is there.? Thanks...vmars316
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:18 PM, vmars316 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Greetings, > I have a windows program that i would like to run on the Mac. It is my understanding that i could install Wine on the > Mac. And then my windows program will run from there. Is that how it goes? > > I am concerned about the complexity of installing wine on mac, and all the 'other stuff' it needs. > How much 'other stuff' is there.? >A couple of questions: What kind of Mac do you own? If it is an Intel based Mac you can use Wine. If it is an older (pre-2008 Mac) using a PowerPC processor, you are basically out of luck. For Intel based Macs I highly recommend using the MacPorts product and installing Wine Development, not Wine Stable (the last update to that version was one and one-half years ago.) Using MacPorts is outside the scope of the project and if you encounter difficulties with it please use their forums for assistance. James
To use normal plain Wine yourself on a Mac means you have to compile the source yourself and run it fro the command line... its not exactly simple. Macports, as mentioned, is usually the easiest way to go because it takes care of all the hard parts for you... it will download, compile, and install things correctly and automatically without you having to be a tech expert... but Wine through it is still all command line usage. http://www.macports.org/ You can also check out some Third Party Programs that use Wine... but those are supported elsewhere, and not on this forum. The best paid-for version is Crossover, hands down, no competition... they do have a free trial. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ There are other options like Wineskin (which is my own project so I'm a bit biased in thinking its really good), which basically tries to make your Windows app into a normal Mac app. http://wineskin.doh123.com/ There are some other tools also listed on the Third Party Page. http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications