Installing An Wine App On A Mac

Wine is an open source program for running Windows software on non-Windows operating systems. While it’s most often used on Linux, Wine can run Windows software directly on a Mac, too–without requiring a Windows license or needing Windows running in the background.
Foobar2000 mac: MacPorts and Homebrew Versions. A front-end launcher program for Foobar2000 on Mac OS X that is running under WINE. If you have wine installed, this script merely creates a launcher app for running foobar2000, therefore Foobar2000mac is now accessible in Launchpad and/or can be pinned to your Dock.

In this article, we will build Wine on Mac OS. Wine (Wine is not an emulator) is an excellent program that allows you to run Windows programs and games on Linux and macOS.

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How to Install Wine on Mac OS Mojave

You can use Wine to run Windows programs on your Mac because this is both free and specific. There are other programs that allow you to run Windows applications on macOS. These;

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In our previous articles, we installed PlayOnMac, which provides a GUI to the Wine infrastructure.

In this article, we will configure Wine to run a Windows-compatible program on Apple PC, Apple’s new operating system.

NOTE: You can also install Wine on Mac OS Catalina 10.15 by following the steps in this article.

How to Configure and Use Wine

Before proceeding with the installation steps, do a clean MacOS Mojave, and then download the application to your computer by clicking the button below.

After downloading the program, follow the steps below in order to install on macOS Mojave 10.14.

Step 1

Double-click the wine-for-Mac.zip file to extract it to the desktop.

Step 2

Wait while the .zip file is expanding.

Step 3

Double click on the program to run Wine.

Step 4

Close Winetricks and General Preferences.

Step 5

On the Wine – Change Prefix window, click the Add button.

Step 6

Type a Folder Name for the Windows programs or games you will install on your computer, and then specify its location. Click the Save button to save the settings.

Step 7

Wait while wine is creating the Prefix.

Step 8

Once the prefix has successfully created, click the OK button.

Running Windows Software on Mac

After installing and configuring Wine, follow the steps below to examine how to install a Windows program on your PC.

Step 1

To install Notepad++, a Windows program using Wine, first download the program to your Mac here. Double-click the Notepad++ .exe file to start the installation.

Wine App Download

Step 2

After the Wine software opens automatically, click the Go button.

Step 3

After the installation of Notepad++ on Mac, select the language you want to use and click OK.

Step 4

Complete Notepad++ installation on macOS Mojave.

Step 5

You can check the Notepad ++ version under “? / About“.

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Final Word

In this article, we have installed the most widely used and free Wine program to run Windows programs on Apple operating system. And finally, we have installed Notepad ++ to run and test the Windows program. Thanks for following us!