M2 MacBook Air and Wine

[Calenhir]

I recently switched to a new M2 MacBook Air and now my Wineskin wrappers no longer work. They all crash at or just after startup. I updated Wine via brew install, but I'm not 100% that I did it right. I also installed Rosetta 2. I have been making wrappers using Wineskin Winery, and I also tried Porting Kit and CrossOver and got the same result. All of the Wineskins I had worked fine on my old Intel-based Mac before I switched.

 

[xraydoc]

I’m not very familiar with Wine, but does any of it run on M-based processors? I’m presuming if it’s trying to get a Windows x86 binary that it’s going to fail.

 

[jav6454]

Is it Apple Silicon enabled yet?

 

[altaic]

Oof. In my experience, wineskin is quite fickle and requires some special debugging knowledge/skills. To work with Rosetta 2, I think wine/wineskin should be x86 (not native aarch64); pretty sure Rosetta 2 won’t link different architectures. I had typed out a long reply, but really you would be better served by reporting a bug directly to wineskin and working with them.

 

[w5jck]

I used Wine/Wineskin years ago on Intel Macs and every time Apple updated macOS it broke the apps. It was a nightmare, and I finally gave up. I got tired of having to redo every app every few months...

 

[eas]

You need to update your engine. I think the only ones that run properly on Apple Silicon are WS11WineCX20.0.4 and latwr