Wine on Mac Fix

Posted by Eeveeluvr on Fri 22 Nov 2019 02:56 AM — 2 posts, 13,864 views.

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I just thought I'd drop in to let people know about a fix I found while I was having issues using Wine to use MUSHClient on Mac.

I am using OSX Mojave version 10.14.6. I also used Wineskin Winery as I always do when creating Wine wrappers. Multiple times when I tried to run the client after setting up the wrapper and either giving the wineskin an installation exe OR placing an unzipped folder into the wrapper, I got a page fault. I couldn't get it to run, and I couldn't find anything about how to fix it online, despite many reports that MUSHClient should run fine in Wine.

The fix was to use an earlier engine version. Specifically, I used WS8Wine1.1.5. WS9Wine2.22 and 2.21 didn't work, and neither did WS9WineStaging2.16. I saw somewhere that the client worked on 1.0.1, so I tried using as early a version as I thought appropriate, and it works fine now. Thought I'd post this so someone else having this problem later can find it.
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Those versions of Wine are suuuuuuuuper old though. These days I don't bother with creating wrappers. I just install the latest official macOS Wine Staging build from https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/macosx/download.html which makes all windows exe's runnable without any extra work or per-app specialization.