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Notes on running Wine on Apple Silicon (arm64 macOS Ventura)
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Based on the awesome instructions found here: https://github.com/Gcenx/wine-on-mac

  • Installing Wine directly with brew install --cask --no-quarantine wine-stable works, but only for 64-bit Windows apps (wine64 binary). 32-bit Wine is available too (wine), but doesn't run since Apple dropped support for 32-bit Mach-O executables in macOS Catalina.
  • However, using Crossover's Wine fork (brew install --cask --no-quarantine gcenx/wine/wine-crossover) lets us use wine32on64, which in turn provides support for 32-bit apps too
  • Note: Wine's default prefix is ~/.wine where all Windows apps will be installed
  • winetricks can be useful (install with brew install winetricks), e.g. for .NET 4: winetricks dotnet40
  • To prevent Wine's daemon processes for continuing in the background after stopping an app, run wineserver -k

Winetricks required for specific programs:

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