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Script and install guide fro Dromedary Studio on Mac

Dromedary Studio

OS X Install Guide

This guide will take you through the steps to install and run Dromedary Studio on OS X. We will be using a program called Wine. Wine is compatibility layer for Linux and macOS which enables Windows applications to be run seamlessly.

Automatic installation

Not available yet, please follow the steps under Manual installation in the meantime.

Manual installation

Step 1: Installing Homebrew

Homebrew is the easiest way to install Wine on Mac. Follow these steps:

1. Open your prefered terminal application. OS X comes with Terminal.app installed by default.

2. Homebrew requires Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode. You might already have this installed. This will take some time to download and install depending on your internet speed, so be patient. Install it with:

   xcode-select --install
   

3. Copy and paste the following line into your terminal, and hit ENTER.

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
   

4. Once Homebrew is installed, close Terminal and relaunch it. Homebrew will tell you to run brew doctor. Do this now. This will check for issues with your installation and suggest fixes.

   brew doctor
   

5. Homebrew might tell you to that you need to accept the license for Xcode. Do so with this command.

   sudo xcodebuild -license
   

6. Run brew doctor one final time to verify that Homebrew is ready.

   brew doctor
   

   You should now see system is ready to brew.

Step 2: Installing Wine with Homebrew

1. Update Homebrew's formula (list of packages).

   brew update
   

2. Install XQuartz/X11 dependency. You will be prompted to provide your user account password.

   brew cask install xquartz
   

3. You are now ready to install Wine.

   brew cask install wine-stable
   

Step 3: Install Dromedary Studio

Hang in there we are almost done.

1. mono is a open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework. Install it now.

   brew install mono
   

2. Download setup.exe installer for Dromedary from the course Google Drive. Let's suppose you downloaded it to the default downloads folder for your user account ie, : ~/Downloads/setup.exe.

3. Launch terminal and navigate to your downloads folder.

   cd ~/Downloads
   

4. Install Dromedary Studio through the Wine emulation layer.

   wine setup.exe
   

   The regular Windows graphical installer will pop up for Dromedary Studio. Accept the license agreement and install to the default location. You will see two error messages just click Ok to ignore them.

5. Locate pathfix.reg file. You will need to import into Wine's Windows registry.

   cd <location of pathfix.reg>
   wine regedit pathfix.reg
   

Step 4: Run Dromedary

Open terminal and launch Dromedary Studio with the following command

wine DromedaryStudio.exe

Dromedary Studio should open in a window.

Step 5: (Optional) Add dock icon

Included in this directory you will find a AppleScript Dromedary Studio.app. Drag this file to your dock to simplify launching Dromedary Studio.