Which will tell you the current directory you’re in. If you don’t know or aren’t sure what it is, open a fresh teminal and type In the command above, replace “ryan” with your own admin name. usr/local/bin/wine '/Users/ryan/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/foxwq/foxwq/foxwq.exe' From the terminal app, you should now be run it using You now have access to the server! Foxweiqi is now installed on your mac but it still requires a special command on terminal to run. Once the installation is completed, the foxweiqi application will open on the login page. Then the fox go server installation page will show up. With wine stalled, change to the desktop folder withĪ few wine installation screens will pop up - press “install” no matter what pops up. “wine-stable” is a more stable version of wine compared to its “dev” version. It may prompt you to enter your password again. This should say something like “already up to date”.
It will prompt you to enter your password (same as your login password) and install Homebrew, giving you a bunch of gibberish along the way. (there is a space between “SL” and the “https…” link) and hit enter.
Homebrew is a convenient package manager written in ruby used to cleanly install a variety of applications. We will be using Homebrew to install the wineskin application, to host our windows application.
From now on we will mostly be working on the terminal app. Use the spotlight search for “Terminal” (usually the default hotkey is Command + Space). Save/move it to your Desktop (the rest of guide assumes this file is on your Desktop). Code is in yellow shading.ĭownload the Foxweiqi installation (“install.exe”) file. Don’t worry if some coding parts do not make too much sense, just copy, paste, press enter, and keep going. This is, in my opinion, much simpler than dealing with the packaged “wineskin”. We will install Fox using wine from source. WARNING: Does not work for OS X Catalina or later.
How to Install Fox Go Server on a Mac (no dual boot or virtual machine) If the language is not in English, change it using the settings icon in the top right corner of the screen, using the second option on the left. The Fox Go Server will launch after installation. The installation process should be automatic. Download the Foxweiqi installation (“install.exe”) file.Link: download link: ĭouble click "install.exe" and click "Install".