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What's needed to bring this to Mac?
Someone willing to take the burden of porting and maintaining a macOS version indefinitely, first of all
I have no experience with MacOS app development, I think it can work by changing the internal paths (now obtained via xdg) and it should work without too many obstacles
Due to 64 bit restrictions on recent macOS versions (10.15+) wine had some problems to reach support, because it hardly depends on 32 bit. It's been a while since I study the question, but when I've seen there was no more support to mac. But then I've seen this: https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer and maybe I think that something with that we can do!
But it's not the only problem: at the moment the project is using gtk, a library made by Gnome devs and linux only. Recently (not too much) gtk added support to macos with opengl. So we should understand if it is possible to use it....
As we are splitting backend and frontend, it might make more sense if someone creates a client with a MacOS supported toolkit. Of course, this cannot be done immediately as the backend has to become a package in itself but, it is an idea.
@tiziodcaio wine perfectly works on latest mac (even on M1 CPU). I used this command to install working version:
brew install --cask wine-crossover
@tiziodcaio wine perfectly works on latest mac (even on M1 CPU). I used this command to install working version:
brew install --cask wine-crossover
Good, I'm a bit outdated at the moment because I don't have no more a mcintosh with me...
Yeah I've used wine on macos for a few things and it seems to be quite compatible even including 32 bit software. The guy who seems to be the biggest maintainer or packager for wine on macos says that you need to use specific versions of wine to have reasonable 32 bit compatibility and performance though.
Would be really cool to have bottles on macos.
Yep this could totally work on Macs in theory. Wine even works on Apple Silicon without much fuss at all. Gaming is another story, but the base components are all good.
No need to bump, read here: https://usebottles.com/blog/bottles-next-a-new-chapter/