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Note

These will function like macOS pkg releases but are packaged within a .tar.xz.
I won't be providing a pkg installer, these packages prove wine that works for 32 & 64-bit windows binaires.


How to install wine-stable using brew

brew install --cask wine-stable

This will install Wine Stable into /Applications

Available packages

  • wine-stable
  • wine@devel
  • wine@staging

How manually to install

Download the desired package from releases unpack, now move the Wine * bundle to /Applications and use as you would a Winehq release.


Dependencies come from

Build dependencies

  • bison
  • gstreamer-development
  • llvm-mingw
  • pkgconfig
  • Xcode

Runtime dependencies

  • freetype
  • gstreamer-runtime
  • gnutls-devel
  • libinotify
  • libsdl2
  • moltenvk

Configure Options

--build=x86_64-apple-darwin \
--enable-archs=i386,x86_64 \
--disable-tests \
--disable-winebth_sys \
--without-alsa \
--without-capi \
--with-coreaudio \
--with-cups \
--without-dbus \
--with-ffmpeg \
--with-freetype \
--with-gettext \
--without-gettextpo \
--without-gphoto \
--with-gnutls \
--without-gssapi \
--with-gstreamer \
--with-inotify \
--without-krb5 \
--with-mingw=/opt/local/libexec/llvm-mingw/bin/clang \
--without-netapi \
--with-opencl \
--without-opengl \
--without-oss \
--with-pcap \
--with-pcsclite \
--with-pthread \
--without-pulse \
--without-sane \
--with-sdl \
--without-udev \
--without-usb \
--without-v4l2 \
--with-vulkan \
--without-wayland \
--without-x

Caution

My Antivirus says it's a VIRUS!!!
You need to contact your Antivirus/Anti-malware vendor to report these as false positives.
This started once wine moved to using Mingw-gcc to compile PE binaries.

See the following examples:


gecko & mono are included

wine-gecko & wine-mono are included within these custom Wine-* packages, usually wine(64) will download and install .msi packages into each and every wineprefix increasing prefix size instead the "shared" versions are used to reduce prefix size.


Note

Don't open wine issues here!

Wine bugs/regressions need to be reported via Winehq Bugzilla
Packaging related issues should be reported here.