#Run windows files on mac wine how to#

I may have misinterpreted how these wrapper/skin things work, if I'm correct though, well it'll be easier just to use CLI than to wrap each and every windows program I download in a wineskin. While I can certainly see how this would be helpful if I was distributing files or if I wanted to download them from somewhere delivered in this state already but I simply want a non CLI means of navigating windows files and programs that I already have and executing them via wine which will already be installed on my Mac.

I looked in to wineskin but I don't think I really understand it, it seems as I understand it to wrap files in to mac readable files that can be executed by standard mac os means, like a double click and achieves this by wrapping all necessary libraries and resources in to a single package along with the file itself. I don't think I've fully wrapped my head around what you're saying but I can grasp that it means I can't do what I was thinking of doing. I suppose the flaw in this plan assuming it works how I think it does is that I'll still have to use terminal in order to navigate to and execute explorer.exe but I could potentially automate this so that choosing and running a windows program will just be a matter of executing a script that opens explorer and then I can do the rest just by gui.ĭoes it work like this or am I missing something? So I'm getting xcode and Macports package installer and from there I will install.Īnyway, the tutorial also gives the basics of wine usage via terminal for executing windows files and while it's not particularly difficult it occurs to me that if I can get explorer.exe to run under wine I could use it as a GUI for navigating my windows directory and program files directory and double click files and execute them just the same as if I was running windows.

#Run windows files on mac wine how to#

I'm intending to use wine on my Macbook Pro and am currently downloading the requisite materials, based on a tutorial on how to use wine for Mac.