Launching an .exe on mac OSX
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hamburgertrain
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Launching an .exe on mac OSX
Hi, I need help with using wine on mac osx. I used to use wine on Ubuntu and Linux Mint and it was relatively simple. But on mac osx, I used macports to dowload/install wine, and i used winecfg to create a prefix. I can not figure out for the life of me how to launch an executable by clicking on it. It opens in TextEdit instead of launching in wine. Can someone explain to me how to make a .exe file launch? I can run any .exe in terminal but it is less than convenient. Thanks in advance.
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hamburgertrain
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Huh. They should be the ones to help you...
Anyway, a little search on Google gave me this:
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/artic ... ons-in-osx
Try that on your EXE.
Anyway, a little search on Google gave me this:
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/artic ... ons-in-osx
Try that on your EXE.
you can't
You can only associate a .exe with an Mac OS X application... as in a normal .app program... not to any command line command you want. Wine doesn't support or make anything on OSX like it does on linux... its command line only.
If you want to make a launcher you can double click and run something, look in the Mac FAQ here on Winehq and I wrote up how to make an applescript launcher for things...
or you could look into using a Mac-ified way to run Wine like Wineskin, WineBottler, or Crossover.
You can only associate a .exe with an Mac OS X application... as in a normal .app program... not to any command line command you want. Wine doesn't support or make anything on OSX like it does on linux... its command line only.
If you want to make a launcher you can double click and run something, look in the Mac FAQ here on Winehq and I wrote up how to make an applescript launcher for things...
or you could look into using a Mac-ified way to run Wine like Wineskin, WineBottler, or Crossover.
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nubishahsa12
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Charles Davis
Launching an .exe on mac OSX
On 4/14/10 5:10 PM, hamburgertrain wrote:
The problem is that no application you have really knows how to open EXE
files. (It's weird that they open in TextEdit; normally you get a "No
application knows how to open 'filename.exe'" message.) If you want to
double-click on EXEs to open them, you have to create an application
that DOES know how to open them.
It's actually pretty easy to do. All you have to do is create a .app
bundle, put a script inside that invokes Wine, and associate it with EXE
files using an Info.plist file. But that's beyond the scope of this
forum/mailing list.
Or, you could use WineBottler. But be warned: we can't support that
here. If you have a problem and you use WineBottler, you have to go to
the person who makes it for support.
Chip
You can't. Not with Wine from MacPorts anyway.I can not figure out for the life of me how to launch an executable by clicking on it. It opens in TextEdit instead of launching in wine. Can someone explain to me how to make a .exe file launch? I can run any .exe in terminal but it is less than convenient. Thanks in advance.
The problem is that no application you have really knows how to open EXE
files. (It's weird that they open in TextEdit; normally you get a "No
application knows how to open 'filename.exe'" message.) If you want to
double-click on EXEs to open them, you have to create an application
that DOES know how to open them.
It's actually pretty easy to do. All you have to do is create a .app
bundle, put a script inside that invokes Wine, and associate it with EXE
files using an Info.plist file. But that's beyond the scope of this
forum/mailing list.
Or, you could use WineBottler. But be warned: we can't support that
here. If you have a problem and you use WineBottler, you have to go to
the person who makes it for support.
Chip
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Charles Davis
Launching an .exe on mac OSX
On 4/14/10 5:35 PM, DaVince wrote:
in the right direction.
Chip
They're at http://discussions.apple.com , by the way. Just to point youThis is a question you should be asking in OSX forums, since it's about registering a filetype (EXE) to a specific application (Wine).
in the right direction.
Chip
