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When you try to install a Windows application on iMac or MacBook computers, you will get an error because you cannot run Windows-compatible software on a Apple computer. The file extension for programs on the Mac is .dmg. On Windows, the extension of the programs is .exe.
Jan 26, 2014 This is a quick tutorial about how to install and run windows programs on mac computers. Link Below Part Two. Jan 19, 2018 How to Install and Uninstall Software on a Mac. How to Install Mac Software. And click and hold on an app. Icons will begin to jiggle and any programs you can uninstall from here will have.
How to Install the Windows Software (EXE) on Mac
You can use Wine and PlayOnMac to run Windows on Apple’s macOS operating systems. After you install PlayOnMac on a Mac, you can install and use any Windows program.
In our previous posts, we installed PlayOnMac and Wine on macOS.
In this article, we will install a Windows software using PlayOnMac on macOS systems.
NOTE: You can also install and run a Windows program or game on macOS Catalina 10.15 by following the steps in this article.
How to Run Windows Programs and Games on macOS
To run Windows software without installing a Windows operating system on a Mac, you need to download and install PlayOnMac on your computer.
First, click on the image below to install PlayOnMac on macOS Mojave.
After installing PlayOnMac, please follow the steps below to run a software files on Mac.
Step 1
Open PlayOnMac and click Install a program.
Step 2
Click Install a non-list program.
Step 3
Read the description in the PlayOnMac notification window and click Next.
Step 4
Select Install a program in a new virtual drive and click the Next button.
Step 5
Type the name of the Windows program that you will install on your system and click Next.
Step 6
If the program to be installed is 32 Bit or 64 Bit, select the relevant option in the following window and click Next.
Step 7
When Wine Mono Installer opens, click Install to download the required packages for applications that require the Net Framework.
Step 8
To download the required packages for embed applications, click the Install button as follows.
Step 9
Click the Browse button to select the Windows program you want to install.
Step 10
Select Notepad ++ and click the Open button.
Step 11
After the Notepad installation starts, select the language you want to use and click OK to continue.
Step 12
Do not run it after installing Notepad ++. Uncheck Run Notepad and click Finish.
Step 13
To create a shortcut for Windows program, click the shortcut icon of the program you are installing and click Next.
Step 14
Type a name for the Notepad application, and then click Next.
Step 15
Select the option I don’t want to make another shortcut and click Next.
Step 16
After successful installation of Notepad on Mac, close PlayOnMac.
Step 17
After double-clicking on the Notepad shortcut on the macOS Mojave desktop, the Wine Explorer program will open. To run Notepad, double click on Notepad in Wine Explorer.
Step 18
After you have successfully installed Windows-compatible Notepad on a Mac, you can examine the program from the image below.
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Final Word
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Linux users who want to run Windows applications without switching operating systems have been able to do so for years with Wine, software that lets apps designed for Windows run on Unix-like systems.
There has been no robust equivalent allowing Mac applications to run on Linux, perhaps no surprise given that Windows is far and away the world's most widely used desktop operating system. A developer from Prague named Luboš Doležel is trying to change that with 'Darling,' an emulation layer for OS X.
'The aim is to achieve binary compatible support for Darwin/OS X applications on Linux, plus provide useful tools that will aid especially in application installation,' Doležel's project page states. Darwin is Apple's open source operating system, which provides some of the backend technology in OS X and iOS. The name 'Darling' combines Darwin and Linux. Darling works by 'pars[ing] executable files for the Darwin kernel... load[ing] them into the memory... and execut[ing] them.'
But there is a ways to go. 'Darling needs to provide an ABI-compatible [application binary interface] set of libraries and frameworks as available on OS X... by either directly mapping functions to those available on Linux, wrapping native functions to bridge the ABI incompatibility, or providing a re-implementation on top of other native APIs,' the project page notes.
Doležel, who started Darling a year ago, described the project and its progress in an e-mail interview with Ars. Darling is in the early stages, able to run numerous console applications but not much else. 'These are indeed the easiest ones to get working, albeit 'easy' is not the right word to describe the amount of work required to achieve that,' Doležel said. 'Such applications include: Midnight Commander, Bash, VIM, or Apple's GCC [GNU Compiler Collection]. I know it doesn't sound all that great, but it proves that Darling provides a solid base for further work.'
Users must compile Darling from the source code and then 'use the 'dyld' command to run an OS X executable,' Doležel said. One roadblock is actually getting Mac .dmg and .pkg application files working on a Linux system. Because doing so isn't that straightforward, Doležel said, 'I've written a FUSE module that enables users to mount .dmg files under Linux directly and without root privileges. An installer for .pkg files is underway.'
Unix/Linux synergy
The fact that OS X is a Unix operating system provides advantages in the development process. 'This saved me a lot of work,' Doležel explained. 'Instead of implementing all the 'system' APIs, it was sufficient to create simple wrappers around the ones available on Linux. I had to check every function for ABI compatibility and then test whether my wrapper works, so it wasn't as easy as it may sound.'
Another lucky break not available to Wine developers is that Apple releases some of the low-level components of OS X as open source code, 'which helped a lot with the dynamic loader and Objective-C runtime support code,' Doležel noted.
But of course, the project is an extremely difficult one. Doležel isn't the first to try it, as Darling was initially based on a separate project called 'maloader.' Doležel said he heard from another group of people 'who started a similar project before but abandoned the idea due to lack of time.'
Doležel was actually a novice to OS X development when he started Darling, being more familiar with OS X from a user's perspective than a developer's perspective. 'I have personally looked for something like Darling before, before I realized I would have to start working on it myself,' he said.
Darling relies heavily on GNUstep, an open source implementation of Apple's Cocoa API. GNUstep provides several core frameworks to Darling, and 'the answer to 'can it run this GUI app?' heavily depends on GNUstep,' Doležel said. Doležel is the only developer of Darling, using up all his spare time on the project.
No reverse-engineering
Doležel isn't reverse-engineering Apple code, noting that it could be problematic in terms of licensing and also that 'disassembling Apple's frameworks wouldn't be helpful at all because Darling and the environment it's running in is layered differently than OS X.'
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The development process is a painstaking one, done one application at a time. Doležel explains:
To improve Darling, I first take or write an application I'd like to have running. If it is someone else's application, I first examine it with one of the tools that come with Darling to see what frameworks and APIs it requires. I look up the APIs that are missing in Apple's documentation; then I create stub functions for them and possibly for the rest of the framework, too. (Stub functions only print a warning when they are called but don't do any real work.)
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The next step is to implement all the APIs according to the documentation and then see how the application reacts. I also add trace statements into important functions to have an insight into what's happening. I believe this is very much like what Wine developers do.
When things go wrong, I have to use GDB [GNU Debugger] to debug the original application.
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It is rather unfortunate that Apple's documentation is often so poorly written; sometimes I have to experiment to figure out what the function really does. Many OS X applications seem to contain complete pieces of example code from Apple's documentation, presumably because one would have to spend a lot of time getting to understand how the APIs interact. This is why I appreciate open source so much—when the documentation is sketchy, you can always look into the code.
Years of development are needed. Similar to Wine, 'Having a list of applications known to be working is probably the best way to go,' Doležel said.
Darling should work on all Linux distributions, he said, with the catch that 'many apps for OS X are 32-bit only, and installing 32-bit packages on a 64-bit Linux system could be tricky depending on your distribution. I personally use Gentoo Linux, so I'm gradually creating a Portage overlay that would compile Darling and all dependencies for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.'
Doležel would like to bring Angry Birds, other games, and multimedia applications to Linux. Darling could potentially 'be used to run applications compiled for iOS,' he writes on the project site. This will also be a challenge. 'The intention is to support the ARM platform on the lowest levels (the dynamic loader and the Objective-C runtime),' he writes. 'Rewriting the frameworks used on iOS is a whole different story, though.'