How to use windows executables on Mac OSX using Wine

Special thanks to Rebecca Payne (Biostat student who took Epid 293),  we now have a nice instruction on how to run windows executables on Mac OSX using Wine:

1. Download the Windows binary file (e.g. genome.exe from the GENOME package).

2. Follow the instructions at http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/ to install Wine on your Mac  (Parts 1-4). Wine will allow you to run the Windows executable file on your Mac without using a Windows emulator.

3. Restart Terminal and navigate to the folder containing genome.exe.

4. Use Genome as usual; however, to call Genome you must write

$wine genome.exe

instead of

$genome.exe

For example, instead of

$genome -pop 2 20 20 -N 1000 -mig 0.0025 > output.txt

one would write

$wine genome.exe -pop 2 20 20 -N 1000 -mig 0.0025 > output.txt

Enjoy!
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