WinBox on Mac

Historical text from HellasProject (2009–2014). It is not current advice or a present-day service.

This is a Greek (AWMN-Wiki) translation of a MikroTik Wiki page.

You do not need extra MacPorts/Darwine-style stacks that can hurt the system if you mishandle them. The “dangerous” path is still on the MikroTik-for-Mac wiki. On an Intel Mac you can wrap winbox.exe with Wine and WineBottler. I already shipped a standalone WinBox.app (54.4 mb) that runs on Intel Macs with no extra installs: unzip and run. You can also roll your own.

Contents

• Part 1 — Prepare
• Part 2 — WineBottler
• Part 3 — Custom prefix
• Done — the wrapper exists

Part 1 — Prepare

To build a standalone wrapper you need:

• an Intel Mac
• Leopard or Snow Leopard, ideally fully updated
• WineBottler downloaded and installed

Part 2 — WineBottler

Launch it from Applications. The first window:

1. Kill a stuck Wine process
2. Run existing prefixes
3. Install predefined prefixes (list in note 5)
4. Create a custom prefix (next section)
5. List of ready-made prefixes
6. Skip licence dialogs (read licences anyway)
7. Install

Part 3 — Custom prefix

Choose Create Custom Prefix:

1. Select File… and open winbox.exe
2. Tick Copy Only… — it is a standalone exe, not an installer
3. Tick Include Wine binaries… so the .app is complete
4. Install, then Save As: MikroTik WinBox, pick a folder (usually Applications), Save

Wait for the progress dialogs until Prefix Created Successfully.

Done

You now have a native-feeling standalone MikroTik WinBox on Mac. The same pattern wraps other Windows programs.

Have Fun MikroTik-Mates!