WINE BUNDLER

About

Wine bundler - simple command line alternative to wine bottler and wineskin to convert windows applications into macOS application bundles.

This simple bash script will let you easily wrap existing wine prefix into bundle that could be used to launch application or for standalone distribution.

Inspired by non-working by default GoG's "Divine Divinity" wine application bundle.

Features

creates macOS application bundle
list available wine versions
download specific wine version
cache downloaded wine binaries locally
install prefix
customizable bundle name
customizable bundle icon
customizable launcher + menu
auto convert png to icns bundle icon
auto convert GoG's ico's to icns bundle icon
simaple bash script that you could easily tune for your needs

While this script doesn't provide bundle update feature yet you could still manually fix bundle configuration as you want after bundle creation.

Installation

Install optional dependency ImageMagick:

brew install imagemagick

Install wine-bundler:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sormy/wine-bundler/master/wine-bundler \
  -O /usr/local/bin/wine-bundler
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wine-bundler

Show wine-bundler help screen:

wine-bundler -h

Example

Assuming that you already had created wine prefix, installed game, tuned with winetricks etc.

Divine Divinity example with menu:

wine-bundler \
  -i ~/.wine/drive_c/GOG\ Games/Divine\ Divinity\ \(Russian\)/gfw_high.ico \
  -n "Divine Divinity" \
  -c ru_RU.UTF-8 \
  -w stable \
  -a win32 \
  -p ~/.wine \
  -m 'Divine Divinity=c:\GOG Games\Divine Divinity (Russian)\div.exe' \
  -m 'Settings=c:\GOG Games\Divine Divinity (Russian)\configtool.exe'

Divine Divinity example without menu:

wine-bundler \
  -i ~/.wine/drive_c/GOG\ Games/Divine\ Divinity\ \(Russian\)/gfw_high.ico \
  -n "Divine Divinity" \
  -c ru_RU.UTF-8 \
  -w stable \
  -a win32 \
  -p ~/.wine \
  -s 'c:\GOG Games\Divine Divinity (Russian)\div.exe'

Earth 2150 Trilogy example with menu:

wine-bundler \
  -i ~/.wine/drive_c/GOG\ Games/Earth\ 2150/goggame-1207661853.ico \
  -n "Earth 2150" \
  -c ru_RU.UTF-8 \
  -w stable \
  -a win32 \
  -p ~/.wine \
  -m 'Earth 2150: Escape from the Blue Planet=c:\GOG Games\Earth 2150\Earth2150.exe' \
  -m 'Earth 2150: Escape from the Blue Planet (Settings)=c:\GOG Games\Earth 2150\Setup.exe' \
  -m 'Earth 2150: The Moon Project=c:\GOG Games\Earth 2150 - The Moon Project\TheMoonProject.exe' \
  -m 'Earth 2150: The Moon Project (Settings)=c:\GOG Games\Earth 2150 - The Moon Project\Setup.exe' \
  -m 'Earth 2150: Lost Souls=c:\GOG Games\Earth 2150 - Lost Souls\LostSouls.exe' \
  -m 'Earth 2150: Lost Souls (Settings)=c:\GOG Games\Earth 2150 - Lost Souls\Setup.exe'

Bundle will be produced in current working directory.

Dependencies

This script should work on both Linux and macOS but some functionality is available only on macOS, for example, utilities iconutil and sips are available only on macOS.

This script is also using installed ImageMagic for image conversion to icns format that should be used for macOS application bundles.

License

MIT