No need to install emulators, virtualizers or boot into other operating systems - WineBottler runs your Windows-based programs directly on your Mac. This is possible thanks to a Windows-compatible subsystem, which is provided by the great OpenSource tool Wine.
WineBottler packages Windows-based programs like browsers, media-players, games or business applications snugly into Mac app-bundles.
WineBottler does Automated Installations:
Select from a wide range of software for which WineBottler offers automated installations. It is as easy as hitting "Install" - and WineBottler will leave you with a neat app on your desktop. WineBottler does not come with the programs themselves, but with scripts, that take care of downloading, configuring and installing everything into an app for you.
WineBottler can pack your .exe into an Mac .app ...
Double-click your .exe or .msi and convert it into an app with WineBottler. You can run the generated app like every other program on your Mac. For advanced users, WineBottler gives you a selection of options: install special dependencies and even turn your .exe into a self-contained app - that is an app, that contains everything to run it... even on other Macs. Porting to OS X never was easier ;).
Find out more - have a look at the Documentation.
Or just run that .exe.
You don't care about generating an app and just want to run it? Double-click the .exe, choose "Run directly" and Wine will run it in a generic environment.
Enjoy, it's free!
Like Wine, WineBottler is free software. We've made it out of our own needs and now we share the result. If you are happy with it, you can keep the project rolling by sending a small Donation.
What's New
Cryptographic Needs 🙂
Thank you very much for all your feedback for WineBottler 4.0.1 ! It shows us, that the need for better support of wines cryptographic functions is in high demand. And yes, I really try to read most of your feedback. But I'm very sorry, that I can answer only a small fraction of your messages, especially if it comes to debug individual problems, as that consumes a considerable amount of time.
ntlm_auth and gnuTLS
The size of the Wine.app is growing rapidly. Because of that I'm not to happy about adding new libs. But with the very justified enforcement of encrypted connection on all channels I've added sambas ntlm_auth and gnuTLS to support more cryptographic functions. This way browsers and Game Clients 🙂 can connect properly. And (once again) you shouldn't see the dreaded:
- err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
Gatekeeper
As noticed by several people, my Apple Developer ID Certificates did expired lately, so that Gatekeeper made you do the Unidentified-Developer-Dance and open WineBottler via maxOSs Security & Privacy settings. WineBottler 4.0.1.1 is now properly signed with my new certificates, but the dancing will continue with the older downloads until they are re-signed. New fun looms with Apples Notarization requirements.
Other Changes
At the moment, our main focus is to improve the overall stability of the package. This is why this build of Wine.app is still based on Wine 4.0.1. There might be some more 4.0.1 iterations before we move on to more current builds of WineHQ.
- made included libs and binaries fully relocatable
- support for 64 bit prefixes in Wine.app
- support Darkmode on macOS Mojave in WineBottler and Wine.app
- fix search for existing WineBottler apps and Wine prefixes
- removed obsolete code and env variables for X11
