The popularity is due to the introduction of the powerful AMD Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs.Īpple's software license for macOS only permits the software's use on computers that are "Apple-branded." However, because modern Macintosh computers use Intel-based hardware, there are few limitations keeping the software from running on other types of Intel-based PCs. In recent years, the use of AMD processors has become common in Hackintoshes, thanks to the website AMD OS X.
Hackintosh laptops are sometimes referred to as "Hackbooks". macOS can also be run on several non-Apple virtualization platforms, although such systems are not usually described as Hackintoshes. Benefits cited for "Hackintoshing" can include cost (older, cheaper or commodity hardware), ease of repair and piecemeal upgrade, and freedom to use customized choices of components that are not available (or not available together) in the branded Apple products.
Since 2005, Mac computers use the same x86-64 computer architecture as many other desktop PCs, laptops, notebooks and servers, meaning that in principle, the code making up macOS systems and software can be run on alternative platforms with minimal compatibility issues.
"Hackintoshing" began as a result of Apple's 2005 transition to Intel processors, away from PowerPC. If there is no error like above, the Wine has been successfully installed on Mac OS X and you are ready to run Microsoft Windows programs.A Hackintosh (a portmanteau of " Hack" and " Macintosh") is a computer that runs Apple's Macintosh operating system macOS (formerly named "Mac OS X" or "OS X") on computer hardware not authorized for the purpose by Apple.
When it’s done, you should see something like below: Fetching archive for wineĪttempting to fetch wine-1.2.3_1.darwin_11.i386.tbz2 from Īttempting to fetch wine-1.2.3.tar.bz2 from Īttempting to fetch wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab from
It will take a couple of minutes for the port script to retrieve, download, building and then install the wine and its dependency softwares. Now we are ready to install the Wine via MacPorts by issuing ‘sudo port install wine’ as follow $ sudo port install wineĭependencies to be installed: apple-gcc42 expat expat flex gettext libiconv gperf libiconv ncurses ncursesw ncurses fontconfig freetype bzip2 zlib zlib zlib freetype gnutls libgcrypt libgpg-error libtasn1 lzo2 pkgconfig glib2 libffi libffi perl5 perl5.12 gdbm gdbm perl5.12 perl5 perl5 xz xz glib2 pkgconfig readline jpeg jpeg lcms tiff tiff libpng libxml2 libxml2 libxslt mesa makedepend xorg-xproto py27-libxml2 python27 db46 libedit openssl openssl python_select sqlite3 xorg-dri2proto xorg-glproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libX11 xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libxcb xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-libXi xorg-libXext autoconf help2man p5.12-locale-gettext m4 automake libtool xorg-libXi xorg-libXmu xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice xorg-libsm xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-renderproto xrender xrender xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto xorg-libXxf86vm xorg-xf86vidmodeprotoĪttempting to fetch gcc-5666.3.tar.gz from Otherwise run the below command to export the port into the PATH. In Mac OS X Lion, it should be already in the PATH. Once the MacPorts has been successfully installed, check whether the ‘port’ command is already in your PATH or not. You have to be connected to internet while installing the MacPorts because it downloads the port files in a background process.ģ. Once it’s downloaded, double-click the dmg file and follow the on-screen installation process. Note that you must have XCode and X11 (XQuartz in Mountain Lion) window environment installed in the system.Ģ. Select the appropriate file to meet with your Mac version. You can download and install the XQuartz from XQuartz project website.ġ. The solution is you have to install XQuartz as the substitute of X11. UPDATE: For those of you who have upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion, you will be surprised that Wine will no longer work because Apple removes the X11 from Mountain Lion.
In this post I want to show you how to install Wine on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (it should be also applicable for Snow Leopard 10.6, Leopard 10.5, and Tiger 10.4) via MacPorts. That said if you own Mac OS X based computers, you can run Windows applications such as Notepad, Mikrotik Winbox and more. Wine (Windows Emulator) is a free and open-source application that aims to allow programs / softwares written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating system such as Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.