need help with CryptoCrack (not for hacking!)

[jus10]

I'm a total noob at this, so I apologize in advance for sounding dumb. I'd be very grateful for help getting Cryptocrack running on my Mac using Wine. Cryptocrack is one of the best classical cipher solvers out there (for solving cryptograms, Vigenere ciphers, etc -- it isn't used for hacking at all), but it is only available for Windows. The developer has suggested Mac users try Wine, but I haven't been able to get anywhere with it (probably because I have no idea what I'm doing). Could I please beg for some help from the geniuses who frequent these boards? Thanks in advance.

Cryptocrack: https://sites.google.com/site/cryptocrackprogram/home

[L. Rahyen]

What's the problem exactly? Do you have an issue installing Wine, how to run the software with it or something goes wrong when you try to run it?

Anyway, I tried to install and run CryptoCrack in Linux, and it seems to work (at least GUI comes up and I can press some buttons, I did not test anything beyond that). On the download page vcrun2013 is listed as dependency, so I have used winetricks to install it. I have downloaded CryptoCrack_Starter.zip and saved it to /tmp/ directory. These are my exact steps:

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export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine.CryptoCrack
winetricks -q vcrun2013
mkdir ~/.wine.CryptoCrack/drive_c/Program\ Files/CryptoCrack
cd ~/.wine.CryptoCrack/drive_c/Program\ Files/CryptoCrack
unzip /tmp/CryptoCrack_Starter.zip
wine CryptoCrack.exe

You may need to change some things, for example, if you saved the .zip not to /tmp/ but to some other folder, specify it instead; I do not know if any Mac OS specific changes are necessary for these commands.