Updated with new Wine application installation procedures.
I can now install Eve too, more details in another post
Everyone in New Eden is currently getting excited about the upcoming Dominion patch. Pretty much every aspect of live in Eve is getting updated whether its 0.0 sovereignty, supercapital ships, faction and pirate ships, Minmatar battleships, assault frigate speeds, or even just living a quiet life in one of the NPC corporations. The most exciting thing about all this is that right now you can test it out on SiSi, the test server. Except if you use a Mac. The current SiSi build doesn’t yet have a Mac release.
But I want to play on SiSi and test out the new toys. After all, my Dramiel and Firetail just got very exciting not to mention my Jaguar and Wolf. I don’t like the proposed changes but more on that in another post. Anyway, in the thread linked above there is a comment that SiSi runs fine under Wine and that got me thinking…
I headed out and got my paws on the latest Wine build for OS X. Installation is really easy, just drag and drop the files into your Applications folder. Its that simple. Job done.
Now that Wine is installed the next step is to make sure that we have all the dependencies that we need to install Eve. Go to your Applications folder and open up the Wine folder. In here you will find an application called Wine Bottler. Run that.
In the “Wine Winetricks” window you can select dependencies to install. For now just select “corefonts”, “dotnet11″, “dotnet20″, and “tahoma”. This will install the standard Windows fonts and also the .NET runtimes needed by most modern Windows applications. Once these installations are complete we are ready to start installing software.
First of all I tried to install the Eve client. Unfortunately I got an error about a DLL library during the installation. Despite this error installation completed but I was unable to boot the game beyond the splash screen. I’m looking into how to get past this.
I was able to get EVEMon and EFT up and running, though. First of all download the applications:
- EVEMon: http://evemon.battleclinic.com/
- EFT: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=548883
- Eve Market Scanner: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=598006 (follow same installation procedure as EVEMon)
Once you have downloaded the installer files it is really simple to add them to Wine. Make sure that you have Wine up and running. Click on the menubar icon and select Wine Controlcenter. Select the “Custom” button on the Controlcenter toolbar and click “Select Installer”. Choose your EVEMon installer and click okay. Before continuing make sure that you have set the prefix template to “Wine Files” unless you want to mount a different prefix. Then just click “Create”. Wine will prompt you to create an OS X style application that you can use to launch EVEMon like a normal Macintosh application.
Eve Fitting Tool doesn’t require any installation. Just double click EFT.exe and it will fire up straight away. I recommend putting the EFT folder somewhere like your Applications folder.
If I find more useful applications that work with Wine I’ll update this post.
Oh, and if you know how to get Eve running under Wine please, please, please get in touch.
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September 21st, 2009 at 11:06 am
Posting just so I can subscribe to any replies. I too want to know
September 21st, 2009 at 11:17 am
Hi Wens
I remember there being a problem with putting the applications themselves into the Applications folder. This was a lack of write permissions I believe.
Better leaving them on the c_drive in your home directory and linking to them from there.
Cheers
B
September 21st, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Heh I understand Your love for Mac's Wensley
I am also Mac user but why go trough all of that if You can use Bootcamp and run Windows client? Unfortunately even existing Mac client is pretty bad in comparement to Windows version. It has many bugs and FPS is about half of thw Windows client (on the same computer)
September 21st, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I don't have the cash or the hard-drive space to put on a Windows
installation. To be honest, I find the performance of the Mac client
to be absolutely fine, even with premium graphics. I'd hesitate about
dual clienting these days, though.
September 21st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Updated the post with proper installation procedures for Wine.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I'm curious about your Minmatar battleship comment…although I've seen quite a bit of player speculation (my own included), I haven't seen a CCP confirmation that anything is changing. Do you have a source?
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:33 am
Well if you can get EvE to run under Wine that will be your fine Cheese.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:02 am
I've forgotten where I saw it but I remember in the feedback thread on the faction battleships they said that they knew the Tempest and large projectiles needed looking at. I'll see if I can find the source later today.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:23 am
^^
September 27th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Hehe I used to have that same "Do Your Work. Don't Be Stupid." wallpaper.
September 28th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Hi Wensley, thanks a lot for your Wine OS X build.
Now i cannot start EVEmon.app directly. I have to open the app package and start the EVEmon.exe from the .app directly, then it works for me. Do you have any idea why starting the EVEmon.app directly does not work?
Greetings
October 16th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Have you tried Crossover?
October 19th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Is it wrong that I'm too stingy to actually pay for it?
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Thanks very much – this works very nicely indeed. On CrossOver, I've always had problems with .NET apps, so this seems to be the simplest way to get things working.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Forgive me, I'm quite new at all this. What's the benefit of having EVE actually installed in Wine if one can run it natively on OS X?
Regards,
Chris
November 8th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
In this case its because there is currently no SiSi client for OS X.
April 17th, 2010 at 3:02 am
the eve client that ccp provides for osx is running on wine, it comes with it. they dont put out a native client for osx unfortunately, thats why we have performance issues
August 3rd, 2011 at 12:52 am
Shame that Wine looks nothing like what you used back in 2009 now…
Re-do a tutorial, if it's even possible with this excuse of an emulator!