A native install of Linux on your Mac if the district fully support the hardware could mostly work but the CPU turning used within macOS isn’t available for any other OS ran on Mac hardware. Now for running a VM of Linux to then run wine to run a Windows application makes little sense and will end up being much slower then directly running.
I wanted to run a Windows machine on my Mac OS X. So obvious choice was using WineHQ. Ideally, it should have been 1/ Download, 2/ Install and 3/ Run. However, it is never that simple, isn’t it!?
macOS Catalina (10.15.1)
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2102)
1. I wanted to use HomeBrew, so I ran this command from https://brew.sh/ and downloaded needed components
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2. I updated ~/vi .bash_profile and added
3. I downloaded version 5.3 from https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.x/
4. Seems like this is a known bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48689 and the fix has been provided here: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blobdiff/76606eaea034c51a73190aac92e75d8b20e82164..35c223850e1bc9e8f97bfaf403bfabca69db3447:/dlls/ntdll/locale.c
5. Edited wine-5.3/dlls/ntdll/locale.c accordingly (though the line numbers did not match)
6. Then I ran configure again successfully
Took a while, but was successful.
7. I fixed some X11 issues
8.Moment of truth:
9. I had to install more packages that WineHQ UI asks for a got few Mac OS X pop-up:
10. I went to System Preferences and allowed the executable by clicking “Allow Anyway”
11. Finally, it worked.
The Standard Instructions That Did Not Work
1. Downloaded WineHQ pkg for MacOS X from https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/macosx/download.html
2. It asked to me have the latest XQuartz installed. So I downloaded XQuartz 2.7.7 dmg from https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.7.7.html. It installed successfully.
3. I tried reinstalling Wine again and it moved ahead this time. I chose 64-bit support (optional) while installing.
4. However, when I ran it from the Applications folder, I for an error that it needs to be updated and lead me to this page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208436
Making WineHQ Work on MacOS Catalina
1. I wanted to use HomeBrew, so I ran this command from https://brew.sh/.
2. I followed instructions from https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOS/Building and downloaded version 5.3 from https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.x/
3. I found this link and started following instructions: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/373851/how-to-get-wine-working-on-catalina. So I updated the command:
4. I wanted to use HomeBrew, so I ran this command from https://brew.sh/.
5. From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10778905/why-does-my-mac-os-x-10-7-3-have-an-old-version-2-3-of-gnu-bison/30844621#30844621 I realised that Mac has older version and thus upgraded it.
6. I updated ~/vi .bash_profile and added
7. Opened a new window which had the path updated
8. I ran configure again successfully
Took a while, but was successful.
9. I had to fix some X11 links.
10. Moment of truth
Whaaaaaa ……..
11. Seems like this is a known bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48689 and the fix has been provided here: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blobdiff/76606eaea034c51a73190aac92e75d8b20e82164..35c223850e1bc9e8f97bfaf403bfabca69db3447:/dlls/ntdll/locale.c
12. Edited wine-5.3/dlls/ntdll/locale.c accordingly (though the line numbers did not match), deleted locale.o and restarted
13. Phew! No Segmentation faults. However, there are more hurdles. After waiting for a while, I got 2 issues.
and via a Mac OS X pop-up:
14. I went to System Preferences and allowed the executable by clicking “Allow Anyway”
15. Then I installed FreeType using HomeBrew
16. Tried again and had to repeat the step-14 multiple times for various DLLs. I had to export another env variable in ~/.bash_profile
Finally, NotePad++ worked!
I wanted to run a Windows machine on my Mac OS X. So obvious choice was using WineHQ. Ideally, it should have been 1/ Download, 2/ Install and 3/ Run. However, it is never that simple, isn’t it!?
macOS Catalina (10.15.1)
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2102)
1. I wanted to use HomeBrew, so I ran this command from https://brew.sh/ and downloaded needed components
2. I updated ~/vi .bash_profile and added
3. I downloaded version 5.3 from https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.x/
4. Seems like this is a known bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48689 and the fix has been provided here: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blobdiff/76606eaea034c51a73190aac92e75d8b20e82164..35c223850e1bc9e8f97bfaf403bfabca69db3447:/dlls/ntdll/locale.c
5. Edited wine-5.3/dlls/ntdll/locale.c accordingly (though the line numbers did not match)
6. Then I ran configure again successfully
Took a while, but was successful.
7. I fixed some X11 issues
8.Moment of truth:
9. I had to install more packages that WineHQ UI asks for a got few Mac OS X pop-up:
10. I went to System Preferences and allowed the executable by clicking “Allow Anyway”
11. Finally, it worked.
The Standard Instructions That Did Not Work
1. Downloaded WineHQ pkg for MacOS X from https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/macosx/download.html
2. It asked to me have the latest XQuartz installed. So I downloaded XQuartz 2.7.7 dmg from https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.7.7.html. It installed successfully.
3. I tried reinstalling Wine again and it moved ahead this time. I chose 64-bit support (optional) while installing.
4. However, when I ran it from the Applications folder, I for an error that it needs to be updated and lead me to this page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208436
Making WineHQ Work on MacOS Catalina
1. I wanted to use HomeBrew, so I ran this command from https://brew.sh/.
2. I followed instructions from https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOS/Building and downloaded version 5.3 from https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.x/
Wine Installer For Mac
3. I found this link and started following instructions: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/373851/how-to-get-wine-working-on-catalina. So I updated the command:
4. I wanted to use HomeBrew, so I ran this command from https://brew.sh/.
5. From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10778905/why-does-my-mac-os-x-10-7-3-have-an-old-version-2-3-of-gnu-bison/30844621#30844621 I realised that Mac has older version and thus upgraded it.
Wine Installer Mac
6. I updated ~/vi .bash_profile and added
7. Opened a new window which had the path updated
8. I ran configure again successfully
Took a while, but was successful.
9. I had to fix some X11 links.
10. Moment of truth
Whaaaaaa ……..
Install Wine Mac
11. Seems like this is a known bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48689 and the fix has been provided here: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blobdiff/76606eaea034c51a73190aac92e75d8b20e82164..35c223850e1bc9e8f97bfaf403bfabca69db3447:/dlls/ntdll/locale.c
12. Edited wine-5.3/dlls/ntdll/locale.c accordingly (though the line numbers did not match), deleted locale.o and restarted
13. Phew! No Segmentation faults. However, there are more hurdles. After waiting for a while, I got 2 issues.
and via a Mac OS X pop-up:
14. I went to System Preferences and allowed the executable by clicking “Allow Anyway”
15. Then I installed FreeType using HomeBrew
16. Tried again and had to repeat the step-14 multiple times for various DLLs. I had to export another env variable in ~/.bash_profile
Finally, NotePad++ worked!