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 -

• How to access websites on your Mac that requires Internet Explorer

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 -

• Tips and Tricks for your MacBook

 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 :)

Related Links

•  How to access websites on your Mac that requires Internet Explorer(OSFG)