ss13 wine

[Wydamn]

I use Ubuntu, so this may not work as well for you, but here's what I do.

First install wine. I find the latest wine 1.5 dev or 1.6 pre-release works just fine. Before you run wine for the first time, make sure you use a 32 bit wine folder with this command line argument:

Code:

export WINEARCH=win32

If you forget to make it 32 bit, ie8 will not install and byond will be much crappier than normal. If you already made a 64 bit wine folder, delete or rename it and then start over again with the above command before running anything else in wine. It might just be simpler to install the 32/i686 bit version of wine for Mac OS X.

Then use winetricks to download some dlls: mfc42, wsh57, and ie8. You'll probably be able to copy and paste it into the command line like this:

Code:

winetricks mfc42 wsh57 ie8

You may see a few EULA's for the installers pop up on your screen. ie8's installer will ask you if you want to allow usage statistics and if you want to include updates in your new install. Select no to both since it doesn't play nice with wine. Also ie8 will flip its shit if you forgot to make wine 32 bit.
Now you should be able to run the byond installer.

It's really not that difficult, but I notice that possibly due to some weirdness of byond and also wine, it's very fidgety. Some people find that byond will run smoother with hardware acceleration disabled in byond's settings; I find it actually runs much worse and I'm on intel graphics.

And as I said before, I use Ubuntu and not Mac OS X so I don't know how well this translates, but I'm assuming it's almost the exact same process.