Video Tutorials

Tutorials in HD to make life easier for Wineskin users.

1. First use of Wineskin
2. Change Name, Version and Icon on Wineskin
3. Changing the company on Wineskin
4. Inserting a drive_d on Wineskin
5. How install Winetricks on Wineskin
6. Changing saves place of 'games which saves on My Documents' on Wineskin
7. Insert cracks on Wineskin

Or, if you prefer, you can watch the complete tutorial:
Complete Tutorial

Find out what your game needs!

As any good programmer knows, the DLLs that the game needs must be called by the game's executable. This means that their name is in it! But how to reach them? Simple: a hex editor (one that is able to interpret the code and shows you in ANSII (common letters)).
A good hex editor for Mac is the Hex Fiend. You just need to search for dll in ANSII mode and find the name of the DLLs.
Then you say: "I know the DLL. So what?". Now go to this page:
http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

Put ⌘ + F and search for the variable name (without the .dll). It should be into some field, for example, if you look at the xlive DLL, this will be the result of the search:

That means you have to install the gfw winetrick, because this is the word that follows w_metadata in the first line of this part.

If there aren't results, then it can't be put by winetricks, and that complicate the things. There are other ways to put them, but sometimes that's not possible, being necessary to find a replacement library.

The Content of this post can also be reclaimed by those who use Wine on Linux, so it becomes easier to discover what it needs to make it run on Linux.

Change the creator on Wineskin

How every Wineskin user know, this sentence is on the description of all Wineskin programs:
This program uses Wineskin. Wineskin is a LGPL licensed project. See http://wineskin.doh123.com/ for more details.

This is like a water mark. In this video, I will teach you how to change this sentence (in brazilian portuguese, but it's possible to understand):

New way to extract the icons

I had said in other post that you could extract the icon from an EXE file using the Icons from file Windows program on the Mac WineBottler, but despite being a very simple program, it's very slow to open.

There is a solution, and it's called Anywhere PE Viewer, and can be obtained here: Download

This program is written in Java, and was built for Windows, but the site give the program on the jar format too for those using Linux or Mac OS X.

Note: It can not extract the icon of certain applications. I don't know what is the criteria but it's better left Icons from file installed for an emergency situation.

This link is for Anywhere PE Viewer without Linux and Windows files and the icon changed: Download

Standart Instructions

Here, I give the standard instructions for the creation of a APP with Winebottler, ie those that are always done and that may (or may not) result directly in the operation of the program.

Follow these instructions:
1 - Open Winebottler;
2 - On the left sidebar, click "Create Custom Prefixes";
3 - Click "Select Files..." and select the installer program;
4 - If you want this program to work on a computer without Wine, activate the checkbox next to the word "self-contained", but he will be 200 MB heavier;
5 - Click "Install" and choose where to save the executable;

If you do not have the installer, but the files, follow these instructions:
1 - Open winebottle;
2 - On the left sidebar, click "Create Custom Prefixes";
3 - Click "Select Files..." and select the executable that opens the desired program;
4 - Activate the checkbox that is below the button you just clicked;
5 - If you want this program to work on a computer without Wine, activate the checkbox next to the word "self-contained", but he will be 200 MB heavier;
6 - Click "Install" and choose where to save the executable;
7 - When loading is complete, right click on the application and click on "Show Package Contents";
8 - Open the folder contents -> resources -> drive_c -> winebottle and put the others program files on it (outside the application executable, which is already in the folder).

Creating an Installer

Made an application to Mac or emulate a Windows application and want to put it on the web? Do you think it is too heavy? Your problems are over!

To create the installer you must have the following programs:
Packages

Follow these instructions:
1 - Open the Package and click "Next";
2 - Put the name of the program "Project Name" and choose the location where the installer will be created in "Project Directory" then click "Finish";
3 - Put the program name in the "Name" field;
4 - In the cap options, click "Presentation" and change the "Preview in" for "English";
5 - In the corner left side, click the program name under the word "Package";
6 - In the options above, click the "payload". Click on "Applications" in the folder "Contests" and then click the + sign at the bottom;
7 - Select the program that you previously converted/created;
8 - Enter ⌘ + B on the keyboard;
9 - Navigate to the folder you selected to create the installer, open the "build" and there's the installer.

And for the Grand Finale, put it in a DMG file:
10 - Rename the folder to the builded program name;
11 - Open "Disk Utility", on folder Applications -> Utilities;
12 - Enter ⌘ + Shift + N and select the folder you just renamed;
13 - Choose where to save the DMG, white it's name, and change the "Format Picture" to "Read Only".


Note: For programs emulated in Winebottler not require Wine to run, activate the checkbox next to the word "self-contained" before clicking the "Install" when building the emulator, but it will make the program 200 MB heavier.