Using Wine To Package Windows Applications for Mac

[fuzeman]

What i want to do is really Compile a EXE file So Wine Can Emulate it but its in a .app File so its easier to use etc Any Idea maybe something like Cider But Using Darwine/Wine
Thanks

 

[brand]

CrossOver for the Mac made by CodeWeavers is worth looking at.

 

[fuzeman]

Im talking about packaging it so you dont need to have like Wine or crossover installed to Run it you just double click the the program runs

 

[Cromulent]

Im talking about packaging it so you dont need to have like Wine or crossover installed to Run it you just double click the the program runs

First off Wine is not an emulator (that is what the name stands for as well).

What you are talking about is rewriting the application so you can compile it as a Mac application. Not going to happen.

The next best option is to run the application is Wine and after that run it in something like VMWare.

 

[fuzeman]

Well Actually Dont Any of you know about Cider!!! No Program Rewriting you just put the exe inside by Right Clicking and clicking Show package contents Then you go through the folders and place the Program in there and you close the finder window and Run the .app File and the Program Runs!!!

1. You dont need to REWRITE the application
2.What are you going on about:

The next best option is to run the application is Wine and after that run it in something like VMWare.

3. I can run the program in Wine!

And there are things called Devloper stuff on Darwine's Website (WINE) But they are hard to use and that does exactly like what i want to do and i want to know if anyone has got them going so they can chuck me the compiled Application of the Darwine Devloper package

Finally i got that out!!!

 

[Cabbit]

So you already knew the answer but decided to see if anyone else did but since they didn't you spouted a load of bollocks.

Cider is expensive and not the best solution for cross development. And wine is well exactly the same bloody thing as Cider. Cider is wine at its core.

 

[neonblue2]

Cedega is a port of Wine that originated back in the days that Wine was under the MIT license.

Now the only way I can see you doing this is to use Platypus. Write a script to open the EXE file that is contained within the application bundle.


Try something like this.

#!/bin/sh

wine="$1/Contents/Resources/bin/mwine"
exe="$1/Contents/Resources/notepad.exe"

"$wine" "$exe"

And in the platypus window do this (I've used Darwine's resources here because it's just simpler this way).

 

[fuzeman]

Hi thanks for that but what Darwine are you using cause mine doesnt have the etc directory and it also doesnt have bin/mwine ? can you show me a download link to it 🙂