Whenever I run an .exe using Wine, nothing happens.

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Demonic
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Whenever I run an .exe using Wine, nothing happens.

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I just downloaded Wine on my pc. I open an .exe file with wine, but nothing happens. I waited for about 3 more minutes, but no results. I am on an 11.6 iMac, and I have XQuartz 2.8.1. please help
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Re: Whenever I run an .exe using Wine, nothing happens.

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Only wine64 will function on modern versions of macOS.

The wine packages installed via brew don’t require XQuartz.
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Re: Whenever I run an .exe using Wine, nothing happens.

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Gcenx wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:05 pm Only wine64 will function on modern versions of macOS.

The wine packages installed via brew don’t require XQuartz.
Wine64 worked, but I ran into another problem.
When I opened the .exe file, this happened.

"Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: Internal error."

yeah so i have no idea whats going on
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Re: Whenever I run an .exe using Wine, nothing happens.

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Sounds like your attempting to launch a 32Bit exe. Wine64 only supports 64Bit Windows binaries.

A lot of software venders package 64Bit software behind a 32Bit installer so that could also be explain the problem.
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Re: Whenever I run an .exe using Wine, nothing happens.

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For me:
'Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specifie
d file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: 00c4:err:start:fatal_error FormatMessage failed'
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