Sunday 9 July 2017

How to install wine and run windows programs on your mac

Background

Sometimes it becomes necessary to install windows program on your Linux or mac machine. Like I mentioned in a post sometime back there may be some sites that require IE only -
In this post I will show you how to install wine on your mac. Wine is a very handy software that allows you to install and run windows programs in a windows like simulated environment.


Installing Wine on Mac

You need to have homebrew installed on your mac. If not please refer -
 Next Homebrew uses an extension called Homebrew Cask to install other programs. You can install the Cask extension by running following command -
  • brew tap caskroom/cask


Wine needs -
  • Java and 
  • XQuartz 
as dependencies to be already installed. I am assuming you already have Java installed on your machine and set it up in classpath. You can install  XQuartz with following command -
  • brew cask install xquartz


NOTE :  You can similarly install Java if you already done have it -
  • brew cask install java
 Once dependencies are done you can directly install wine with following command -
  • brew install wine


Also install winetricks -
  • brew install winetricks

 Use winetricks to set environment as windows 7 -
  • winetricks win7

Installing and running Windows program from wine

Go to the directory where you have downloaded your exec file and run -
  • wine installer.exe
where installer.exec is your exe file.

 You can find installed files in dir -
  • /Users/athakur/.wine/drive_c
You can then navigate to program files, find your installed program and run it -


 Once in the program directory you can simply run it as -
  • wine ioexplorer.exe


And you are done :)

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