In a previous article, I have shown you how to install OS X El Capitan GM (golden master) or other Beta version without developer account. As I sometime still need Windows-based program such as Mikrotik Winbox, I need to have WINE (Windows Emulator) on my Mac. In this post I would like to guide you how to install Wine on OS X El Capitan. At the time of this writing, the latest version of OS X is OS X 10.11 El Capitan GM (Golden Master).
UPDATE: If you also want to install Microsoft Visio on Mac, you can follow our post how to install Visio on Mac running OS X El Capitan.
Install Wine Mono Machine
Wine — (originally an acronym for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator') is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the.
Requirements
1. Latest version of OS X El Capitan (Golden Master build at this time of this writing)
2. Latest version of Xcode (Xcode 7.0 GM, you can download it from https://imzdl.com/osx.html if you are not a registered Apple developer.
3. Homebrew package manager for OS X. We will install Wine using Homebrew package manager.
I assume that you have done installing point 1 and 2 in the requirements above. So we just go to install Homebrew package manager.
Install Homebrew
- No, it is not the one you drink, it is a piece of software, which can act as a hardware interface for Windows apps, which can be made available on Linux. Wine is available for Linux and is not limited only to Ubuntu. Installing Wine on Ubuntu. First, try these simple commands: sudo apt-get install wine or sudo apt-get install wine-stable.
- Installing Wine Linux. Wine will pretty much always be in your distribution's main repository and can be installed by simply running your package manager's install command, such as sudo apt-get install wine for Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions, or by installing it from a GUI such as the Ubuntu Software Center.
- Wine is a free and open-source compatibility layer that allows Windows-based applications like OnCall to run directly on your Mac. OnCall requires Wine to run on your Mac, and it must be installed first, before installing OnCall. This process should work on any macOS version up to macOS Mojave (10.14, released September 2018).
- In this post I would like to guide you how to install Wine on OS X El Capitan. At the time of this writing, the latest version of OS X is OS X 10.11 El Capitan GM (Golden Master). UPDATE: If you also want to install Microsoft Visio on Mac, you can follow our post how to install Visio on Mac running OS X El Capitan.
- Wine 5.12 was released a day ago as the latest development release of the compatibility layer allows to run Windows apps on Linux and Mac OS. The official apt repository has made the packages for all current Ubuntu releases. Wine 5.12 release highlights include: NTDLL converted to PE format. Support for the WebSocket API. Improved RawInput support.
Run the script below to install Homebrew:
Once it is installed, run the below command to install Wine.
Install WINE using Homebrew
Macos Install Wine Mono
The format to install package using brew is “brew install package_name”:
To run a Windows program, use “wine /path/to/program.exe”.
Example below is to run Mikrotik Winbox using wine
Hopefully this post is helpful for anyone who want to install wine on OS X El Capitan.