Wine-native way to package/bundle installed software as .app

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fooness
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Wine-native way to package/bundle installed software as .app

Post by fooness »

Dear folks,

as I’ve just read that you don’t support third party software like wineskin here, is there an “official” way to bundle installed software, e.g. a game, into an .app folder, so I can just copy this .app folder to my second Mac?

Thank you very much!
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sprezzatura
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Re: Wine-native way to package/bundle installed software as

Post by sprezzatura »

I agree that this is not the place to support third-party installer packages.

However, it would be nice to be able to discuss the relative merits and drawbacks of the various installers: WineSkin, WineBottler, etc.

I am just starting out with Wine, and I have no idea what to use to wrap my app.
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Re: Wine-native way to package/bundle installed software as

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Having an official way to wrap Windows apps in MacOS would be great I don't believe this will happen due to the nature of this project it is meant to be an API reimplementation to run Windows apps directly on the host OS.

If you want to wrap an application look into using;
WineSkin <Advanced configurations (more support found @ The Porting Teams site)
WineBottler <Easy but less configuration options.

However using this you will be unable to submit bug reports or ask for help on these forums you will need to ask for help on their own respective sites.
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