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WineBottler allows users to bottle Windows applications as Mac apps.
Wine has always been popular among Linux users for running Windows programs, but Wine is available for Mac, too-and now, free utility WineBottler can "bottle" Windows programs into separate application bundles that run as standalone Mac apps.
In other words, WineBottler is a tool similar to codeweavers Crossover, where separate prefixes are created per app. However, WineBottler 'wraps' or 'bottles' the separate prefixes in an application bundle. WineBottler allows standalone (i.e. not requiring
Wine has always been popular among Linux users for running Windows programs, but Wine is available for Mac, too-and now, free utility WineBottler can "bottle" Windows programs into separate application bundles that run as standalone Mac apps.
In other words, WineBottler is a tool similar to codeweavers Crossover, where separate prefixes are created per app. However, WineBottler 'wraps' or 'bottles' the separate prefixes in an application bundle. WineBottler allows standalone (i.e. not requiring
What's New
Version 1.2.3:
- #104 Custom Prefix IE6 Self Contained Failure
- #128 Empty Winetricks
- #143 Can't install Internet Explorer in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- #99Error Installing IE6 predefined prefixes
- #102 Winebottler install is missing all predefined prefixes
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
- X11
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WineBottler allows users to bottle Windows applications as Mac apps.
Wine has always been popular among Linux users for running Windows programs, but Wine is available for Mac, too-and now, free utility WineBottler can "bottle" Windows programs into separate application bundles that run as standalone Mac apps.
In other words, WineBottler is a tool similar to codeweavers Crossover, where separate prefixes are created per app. However, WineBottler 'wraps' or 'bottles' the separate prefixes in an application bundle. WineBottler allows standalone (i.e. not requiring wine to be installed) applications to be created as well, by including the wine bundle inside the standalone application bundle.
Wine has always been popular among Linux users for running Windows programs, but Wine is available for Mac, too-and now, free utility WineBottler can "bottle" Windows programs into separate application bundles that run as standalone Mac apps.
In other words, WineBottler is a tool similar to codeweavers Crossover, where separate prefixes are created per app. However, WineBottler 'wraps' or 'bottles' the separate prefixes in an application bundle. WineBottler allows standalone (i.e. not requiring wine to be installed) applications to be created as well, by including the wine bundle inside the standalone application bundle.
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mymon reviewed on 07 Apr 2012
Sometimes you need to get into it to make thinks working but its worth to play!
Once you understand how the bottles work and what your app requires to work you can get even .NET software working (which made me to use virtual Windows before)
If you get into it you may find that you don't need Windows at all (Im not using VMware/VirtualBox/Parallels any more as all I want finally works)
Shame it can't run same app multiple times (as wine does)
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Howto of WinBottler read this one:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/trac/wiki
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Mikebenda reviewed on 06 Feb 2011
I have one Windows application that I need to run and don't want an entire installation of Windows on my hard drive, nor do I want to pay for it just to run one app.
Unfortunately I couldn't get this to work after playing with various options over the course of several hours. I didn't quite understand all the concepts and there is no help, or "getting started" manual to get me up to speed.
I commend the developer for his efforts though.
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None of these will start up and work. Close in some cases, but complaints about file permissions, etc. Too bad.
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Bottler installed IE6 cleanly, and it now sits there as just another app in my /Applications folder.
There are a few small glitches (although they may well be my fault), for example despite setting the homepage to my dev server, it always defaults to something like httpd:/// (three slashes). Apart from that though, it seems robust enough and I have trashed my Windows partition freeing up valuable space on my MacBook.
Tip: You need to run the bottle installer from an admin account.
Tip2: requires X11 - I think this is now installed as standard on SL?
Tested on 10.6.2 32-bit
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How does Winebottler deal with USB & Firewire ?
Can applications access these ports in the same manner as they would in a native Windows environment ?
i wanna run a windows app that for some tests. so, i downloaded wine and when i open that .exe file with wine, am getting some pop up saying "ole error". how can i get out of this, please help me