Installing apps with it is a little more complicated than with commercial CrossOver but it is free and worked with 2 apps which I tested. Good news is that it also supports running 32bit windows apps on macOS Catalina. Since July 2020 PlayOnMac ( ) works again on macOS Catalina so you can download it and run windows apps with it which I think is much simpler.
Also probably 32 bit apps will be supported by a normal free version of wine at some point.
You can download the trial version for free and test it for free for 14 days. You can also try commercial CrossOver software by CodeWeavers which provides wine that supports 32 bit apps on Catalina. You can check for some performance improvement tips (in brief: using VM with retina disabled, VboxVGA setup, disabled mouse integration, limiting FPS with RivaTuner). In case you wanted to get wine working for purpose of running 32-bit games then unfortunately it will not work with wine but you can try with VirtualBox.
I also tested it with IrfanView 64 bit ( ) and it also works fine. Those steps might not be exactly precise, as I'm not sure if I did not miss something but hope it will help someone.Īlso, note that obviously wine on macOS Catalina will be able to run only some 64-bit windows apps and all 32-bit windows app will not work. wine explorer for graphical file manager instead of console Also, you might want to run: sudo spctl -master-disable to disable gatekeeper if you will see some system alerts about loading app from an unknown developer.After fixing freetype fonts problem I was able to run notepad++.It showed some errors about freetype fonts so I installed them with macports and I had to copy them from /opt/X11/lib to /usr/local/lib before wine detected them.It opened windows console and here I was able to cd to Notepad++ 64 bit directory (downloaded from note that newest version did not work and threw some errors about some dll's).It compiled after more than 30 minutes.configure -enable-win64 successfully without errors in terminal run: make
It showed that it couldn't find bison, so I installed it with macports (sudo port install bison).My steps were more or less something like that: Enjoy! No.I was able to build Wine 64 bit from source on macOS Catalina and successfully run Notepad++ 64 bit on it. Here are some of the best games we could find, updated to 64-bit or just playable under macOS 10.15 Catalina.
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