amishakov/wineskinserver

Wineskin

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 macOS 10.15.4 to macOS 14

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How to install

homebrew

Uninstall the old version

brew update
brew upgrade
brew uninstall --force --zap wineskin
brew uninstall --force --zap gstreamer-runtime

Install the new version

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

DirectX support

WineD3D
Supports DirectX 11 and below.

• OpenGL backend is used for DirectX 9 and below
• Vulkan backend is used for DirectX 10 & 11
  When Enabled D3DMetal when takes over 64Bit DirectX 11 & DirectX 12

D3DMetal
Supports 64Bit DirectX 11 & 12 via Metal.
Since "Game porting toolkit" 1.0 beta 4 Apple now allows redistribution for none commercial uses.
You can view Apple's documentation here.

D9VK
Supports DirectX 9 via Vulkan.

DXVK
Supports DirectX 10 & 11 via Vulkan.
D3DMetal is forced when Enabled

VKD3D
Limited DirectX 12 support.
Requires WineCX23.x or later Engines

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/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:

• CrossOver 19 and antivirus 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, documentation and the wiki.