Crossover- how to 'install' simple exe executables?

madmaxmedia · Mar 15, 2007, 01:54 PM

I have some small Windows apps that don't have installers, and just consist of a single executable. If I double-click them, it will start up the Crossover installer. The PC executable will then run and I can use it, and I can cancel the Crossover installer fine.

But is there a way of 'installing' these executables in a particular bottle, etc.? So I can run Crossover, and then run the app from 'Programs' menu within Crossover?

Thanks!

PS- A second question- does Crossover support the optical drive? I downloaded an open source app called 'DVDisaster' that creates par/recovery files for scratched disks. The app installs and runs, but does not detect when I insert a disk.

jediracer · Nov 19, 2009, 09:16 AM

what?

Wondersnite · Jun 20, 2010, 11:14 AM

I want to know how to do this too.

What Crossover does is use and .exe installer and then install the actual program. What I want is to know how to just launch the and .exe, because in some case the .exe is the program itself and not the installer!

balamw · Jun 20, 2010, 04:35 PM

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Google winebottler. Does exactly what you want for simple exes.

B

Mar 15, 2007, 01:54 PM	#1
madmaxmedia macrumors 68030 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA	Crossover- how to 'install' simple exe executables? I have some small Windows apps that don't have installers, and just consist of a single executable. If I double-click them, it will start up the Crossover installer. The PC executable will then run and I can use it, and I can cancel the Crossover installer fine. But is there a way of 'installing' these executables in a particular bottle, etc.? So I can run Crossover, and then run the app from 'Programs' menu within Crossover? Thanks! PS- A second question- does Crossover support the optical drive? I downloaded an open source app called 'DVDisaster' that creates par/recovery files for scratched disks. The app installs and runs, but does not detect when I insert a disk.
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Jun 20, 2010, 04:35 PM	#4
balamw Demi-God (Moderator) Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New England, USA	Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16) Google winebottler. Does exactly what you want for simple exes. B __________________ MBA (13" 1.7 GHz 128GB), UMBP (15" SD 2.8 GHz), UMB (13" 2.4 GHz), iMac (17" Yonah), 32GB iPad 3 WiFi+LTE, 64 GB iPad WiFi, 32 GB iPhone 5, Airport Extreme
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Nov 19, 2009, 09:16 AM	#2
jediracer macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Minneapolis	what?
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Jun 20, 2010, 11:14 AM	#3
Wondersnite macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2010	I want to know how to do this too. What Crossover does is use and .exe installer and then install the actual program. What I want is to know how to just launch the and .exe, because in some case the .exe is the program itself and not the installer!
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