WineBottler Apps

WineBottler apps are OS X app bundles that contain the complete environment, that a Windows-based program needs (wineprefix).
Further it comes with a starter app, to initially run the program, that lives in the bottled app.
As an app usually lives in the folder /Applications, it is immutable. This way it is guaranteed, that it can be copied, moved and run by everybody even without elevated privileges. But as files in a winprefix are changed sooner than later, the bottled app keeps a mutable copy in ~/Application\ Support. You can see, reset and remove it directly in WineBottler's tab "On My Mac".

Anatomy of Wine.app

Wine.app is compiled from the sources of winehq.org. But instead of installing it to the OS X systems root or /opt directories, it is compiled with a prefix that is located inside an app-bundle – hence the name Wine.app. This makes it very easy to move and remove old copies of Wine, without hampering with the system: by drag and drop.

Wine dependencies

We try to link all libraries possible and ship all the dependencies when building our Wine.app - as we aim to bring you the most features wine has to offer. This is why Wine.app comes with the latest Gecko and mono included, which are used to display web-content and to run .net programs.

Here comes the complete list:

VersionNotesLicense
gsm1.0.13Audio codecLicense
samba3.6.14for client mode ntlm_authGPL 3
libtool2.4.2?
mpg1231.15.3LGPL 2.1
lcms1.19MIT
jpeg8d?
tiff4.0.3License
libpng1.6.1License
pkg-config0.23GPL 2
libusb1.0.9LGPL 2.1
libusb-compat0.1.4LGPL 2.1
libgphoto22.4.14Camera supportLGPL 2.1
sane-backends1.0.23Scanner supportLicense
freetype2.4.11FTL or GPL 2
fontconfig2.10.0?
libxml22.9.1MIT
libxslt1.1.28MIT
gettext0.18.2?
wine_gecko1.9-x86Web-content supportLGPL 2.1
winemono0.0.8.net supportLGPL 2.1