Downloading Wine on Mac OS X

Wine on OS X binary packages are not officially provided by the Wine project. As such, it may be out of sync with the latest version shipped by Wine. If this is the case, it is better to "build Wine from scratch". This requires to install XCode from Apple, the development package for MacOS X shipped (but not pre-installed) with your Mac.

Please note that all builds discussed here are for Mac's with Intel CPU's, not PowerPC CPU's

Method One: Prebuilt Binary

There is no prebuilt Wine packages for Mac, Darwine is not Wine, please don't use use it, or report bugs with it, it's not supported by WineHQ.

Method Two: MacPorts/Fink

MacPorts provides an easy way to compile and install Wine. To see what version of Wine is current supported for MacPorts use the search command:

$ port search wine
wine @1.0.1 (x11)
    Wine Is Not an Emulator

wine-devel @1.1.13 (x11)
    Wine Is Not an Emulator

winetricks @20090121 (x11)
    downloads and installs various redistributable runtime libraries

Found 3 ports.

Alternatively you can use Fink which is similar to MacPorts, just that it's packaging system is based on Debian's dpkg and apt.

$ fink list wine
     wine                  1.1.13-100       Microsoft Windows compatibility layer
     wine-dev              1.1.13-100       Microsoft Windows compatibility layer
     winetricks            20090106-1       Install redistributable runtime tools in Wine

It is recommended you install the latest version of XQuartz (the X11 server for OSX). If you're on Leopard, you can install the package available at that site. If you're on Tiger (or just wish to compile it yourself), you can install it using MacPorts:

 $ port search xorg-server
xorg-server @1.4.2-apple31 (x11, devel)
    The X.org / Xquartz X server.

Uninstalling Wine

In MacPorts you would run: sudo port uninstall wine to remove wine.

In Fink you would run: 'fink remove wine' to remove wine.