Wineskin

Wineskin is a user-friendly tool used to make ports of Microsoft Windows software to macOS.\ Unlike the original Wineskin Project by doh123 that worked on OS X 10.6 to macOS 10.12 (without tweaks), this project supports MacOSX10.13 to macOS11

How to install

homebrew

brew install --no-quarantine gcenx/wine/unofficial-wineskin

Manual installation - (not recommneded!)

Download Wineskin Winery v1.8.4.2\ *After downloading remove the flag quarantine before extraction, don't extract using _Keka___

xattr -drs com.apple.quarantine Wineskin.Winery.txz

DirectX support

WineD3D by default converts D3D to OpenGL, OpenGL on macOS hasn't been updated in years, at present only DirectX9 and earlier function.\ DXVK Requirements are not entirely known at this time, however as CodeWeavers locks support to macOS High Sierra this would be a good start.\ To make use of DXVK use a 64Bit WS10 or greater engine, open winetricks and run the following custom command;

dxvk_macos.verb

Apple Silicon support (Rosetta2)

The only Engine(s) that fully function to on these devices is WineCX20.0.4 or greater.\ This will require macOS Big Sur 11.1 or greater and Rosetta2 needs to be installed.

macOS Catalina support

WS11WineCX19.0.4 & WS11WineCX64Bit19.0.4 include

wine32on64

macOS Catalina (10.15.3 and below)

SIP needs to be disabled to make changes to

i386_set_ldt

wine32on64

GateKeeper

Windows applications are not code-signed in a way that GateKeeper understands.\ Either remove the quarantine flag using

xattr -drs com.apple.quarantine {exe here}

sudo spctl --master-disable

Hackintosh Support?

AMD based systems are not supported due to being unable to run 32Bit code on macOS.
Intel based systems should work without issue.

FAQ

My Antivirus says it's a VIRUS!!!

You need to contact your AntiVirus/AntiMalware vender to connect these false positives.\ This started once wine moved to using Mingw-gcc to compile PE binaries.

See the following examples - CrossOver 19 and anti virus programs - Windows Defender detects Occamy.c trojan in steam proton 5.0 folder

License

Keeping the same as the original material, LGPL 2.1 is the license of that project. You can find more details about that in the LICENSE file.

Credits

• VitorMM for modernizing the Wineskin Codebase & ObjectiveC_Extension.
• PaulTheTall for constant test data and finding bugs.
• doh123 for creating Wineskin.
• thmrtz for the issue template, documention and the wiki.