To the Mac App Store
Enjoy!
Mike

While being busy on a lot of projects, I needed a test-run for the Mac App Store. So I decided on bringing my little helper “MessHider” to the light of the broader world. It’s basically an additional wallpaper that you can lay over open windows and scattered Icons to have a clean surface to start your presentation… or just hide them from nosy parkers!

To the Mac App Store
Being small and simple, it did serve me well over the years and I hope you enjoy it as well.
Mike

Find it here or by Wine.apps update functionality
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/

enjoy
Mike

First, Thank you very much for all the feedback, books and donations lately. I’m in the process of answering as many mails as time allows. For the books: Amazone does not give out the donators name, so forgive me, if I’m not able to thank you personally… I really appreciate it and I enjoy the reading – NO, this does not take away time from WineBottler .

Second, compiled Wine 1.2.1, you can find it here:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/

Third: WineBottler 1.2 and Wine 1.3.x builds are on hold until November. A big project of a customer hits a major milestone on October 27th. (That’s the WorldDidact in Basel, Switzerland, if you happen to be close, meet us at the Ingold/profax booth ).

Yours
Mike

Finally: still causing trouble…
Adobe is updating flash at an increased rate. This leads to a lot of sha1 mismatches, as the winetricks team is always some hours behind an update. So your installation of ie6 or steam might fail because of that. I will remove Flash from the default installation in WineBottler 1.2. You’ll be able to install it with WineTricks if needed.

It really became a lot more stable, but there are some new issues as well. Some noticed the black or garbage background of some icons and images. These are related to Apples X11. Upgrading XQuartz would be one possibility. For now I reverted the patch, that caused that behavior, until Apple updates it’s X11.

Further refined the “theme” of MatthiasF, (it’s applied by default). It was to dark, so a opted for the OS X unified look, by just darkening the Menubar. Menues ar now white and blue, and sport a bigger font… sorry, no Lucida Grande, yet.

Fixed some bugs with Winetricks.

Outlook
I will further develop “1.2″ to refine some things. 1.2 will remain available on Tiger (0.4% users ). But 1.3.x will only be for Snow Leopard users (77% users), as a Leopard build would just combines the bad from Tiger and Snow Leopard.
I have nearly finished 1.2 of WineBottler, which should work on Snow Leopard and Leopard. Please bear some more hours/days with me.

Just update your current version of wine by selecting “Preferences…” from the Wine-Glass Icon in the Statusbar, or download it manually from
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/

Here is a list of all the libs and the changes to the libs.

enjoy
Mike

PS.
Adobe is updating flash at an increased rate. This leads to a lot of sha1 mismatches, as the winetricks team is always some hours behind an update. So your installation of ie6 or steam might fail because of that. I will remove Flash from the default installation in WineBottler 1.2. You’ll be able to install it with WineTricks if needed.

I’ve added a “theme” by MatthiasF, that matches the Leopard window-colors. It’s a little bit darker

Just update your current version of wine by selecting “Preferences…” from the Wine-Glass Icon in the Statusbar, or download it manually from
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/

Here is a list of all the libs and the changes to the libs.

enjoy
Mike

PS.
Adobe is updating flash at an increased rate. This leads to a lot of sha1 mismatches, as the winetricks team is always some hours behind an update. So your installation of ie6 or steam might fail because of that. Maybe I remove Flash from the default installation.

There are still to many mails, so I’ve tried to further simplify WineBottler:
The Bottler itself has undergone some cosmetic changes and gained advanced features for the predefined and the custom bottles. I’ve added a lot of descriptions and explanations. There is a new installation mode, where you can copy multiple files to a custom app.

But the main change with the bottles is the customized X11.app I’m using now. It ‘hides’ X11. It provides a AppMenubar with a custom Menu “Applications”, which carries entry for basic Wine tools. It allows to cmd-tab between apps. It sports a private “Working Copy” in ~/Library/Application Support/com.yourcompany.yourapp_[BOTTLEUNIQUEID]. For now, there is no “open with” and drag’n'drop support.

You see Faerie Solitaire, check it out http://subsoap.com/ if you are a Solitaire addict . If You feel like your app should be in the predefined section, or you need some help with creating a custom self-contained app, drop me a line.

I’m reinstalling 10.5 now, for some testing on Leopard. This release will only work on 10.5+.

Mike

You might have noticed, that my builds of wine and winetricks where badly broken in some parts after the update to > 1.1.35. Loads of things changed recently in wine. Some might know it, wine ist winding down to another stable release (1.2) and we are close to codefreeze, so everybody is trying to get their code in before gate closes. There will possibly be another 1-2 releases, after it will be bugfixing, bugfixing and bugfixing.

The other thing is winetricks. To understand winetricks – the script I’m relying on to do some of the heavy lifting – one has to know, that it always tries to achieve compatibility with the latest build of wine. This will break compatibility with older builds of wine, sooner or later. And you can’t preserve a copy of winetricks, as it always updates download locations and checksums, which sometimes change very fast. This makes it kind of hard to stay with an old build of wine. More on winetricks at winehq.

In this update, I optimized the Wine environment (all the needed libraries) and changed a lot of configuration issues like the openssl.cnf file. Then I revised the bottler scripts to better handle paths with spaces, as winetricks has still some issues with some paths. There where some updates to the predefined prefixes as well… some more will follow, as they are always loaded from the internet, they get updated automatically.

Now WineBottler 1.1.44 and Wine 1.1.44 should work together again .
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

As always: a list of all the libs and the changes to the libs.

enjoy
Mike

Just update your current version of wine by selecting “Preferences…” from the Wine-Glass Icon in the Statusbar, or download it manually from
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/wine/

Beside of the Wine changes, I’ve updated nearly every lib that ships together with the Wine binaries. Here are a list of all the libs and the changes to the libs.

enjoy
Mike

This post shall document – to those using search engines – that this is still a one man blog and coding engine. That this engine, in it’s sparetime, writes code for more projects than it possibly can maintain.

So don’t be disturbed, if I do not show up for some weeks, I have some other (real) live(s) aswell .

Maybe I’ll have to program a “Yes we’re open” or a “Sorry we’re closed – for some weeks” sign.