Allan Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 What is Wineskin? Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose. Best of all, its free! Download If you are using Mac OS X and want to run Windows applications, the most popular option is to install Windows OS using Bootcamp, or run Windows in a virtual machine. Linux users will know that you can use Wine to install and run Windows applications natively. The good news is that Mac users can run Wine to install Windows applications as well. Wineskin is a Wine-tool ported over to the Mac platform. Check out how you can run Windows applications on Mac OS X. Wineskin is simply an implementation of Wine at its core. For those who are not sure what Wine (an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is, it is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X. Installation The installation is pretty straight-forward. 1. Download Wineskin from website. The latest version as of this post is 2.5.12. But now the 2.6.0 is available. 2. Extract the file and move the Wineskin app to your Applications folder. Open it. On the first run, there won’t be any engine showing up in the list. Click the “+” button to download and install the latest engine. The engine is required to make the Windows applications work. Once the engine is installed, you are ready to install Windows applications. Installing Windows applications Before you start, make sure you have the executable file of the desired Windows application with you. Note that Wineskin doesn’t support all the Windows applications out there. Check out Wine’s AppDB to see if the application you want is supported. 1. Click the “Create New Blank Wrapper” button and enter a name for this wrapper. In this example, we will be installing Peazip on Mac. While creating the wrapper, it will prompt you to install mono package for running .Net applications and Gecko package for running HTML-based apps. 2. Once the wrapper is created, open it in Finder; right click and select “Show Package Content.” You should see two folders: “Contents” and “drive_c” and a Wineskin app. Run the Wineskin app. 3. Select “Choose Setup executable” and select the executable file of the Windows application. The installation will proceed just like it does in Windows. Running Windows applications Run the Wineskin app (from the Wrapper folder) again. This time, click “Advanced.” Browse and select the installed application and click “Test Run.” This will run the Windows application. This is what the application will look like: Once you are happy with the test run, the next time you can just double click the Wrapper app to open this application. That’s it. Source: Make Tech Easier 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 WineSkin is GREAT can easily run most pc games too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Are the wrappers made using the tool standalone, or do I have to install Wineskin itself for the wrapper to run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted November 2, 2014 Author Share Posted November 2, 2014 You should to install Wineskin for Wrapper run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 wrappers works as standalone apps, no need of extra software needed. the game porting team is "the home" of this, take a look i'm sure you guys will find that interesting! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Xtreme Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 I use wine bottler though if you don't mind spending a little theres always crossover. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammer87 Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 WOW !! thank you, that is really helpful for me ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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