FreeBSD13Wine.md

1. Install WINE

1.1. Check if you have FreeBSD-32 or FreeBSD-64

uname -mrs

Output should look something like FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 amd64.

1.2. Install for FreeBSD-32

pkg install -y wine wine-devel wine-staging

1.3. Install for FreeBSD-64

pkg install -y i386-wine i386-wine-devel i386-wine-staging

Why does these packages have i386 as prefix for 64-bit FreeBSD?

• These packages are only meant to allow 32-bit wine on amd64 systems. If you're on 32-bit FreeBSD, these packages have a failsafe that redirects to 32-bit packages.
• Although FreeBSD can build and run the pure 64-bit version of wine it still doesn't support WoW64 which is necessary for the overwhelming majority of Windows apps, AMD64 systems still need to use the 32-bit package.

1.2. Install

First,

pkg install -y wine-gecko wine-mono wine

alternatively

pkg install -y wine-gecko-devel wine-mono-devel wine-devel

Then, as a normal user (not root)

/usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh install wine mesa-dri

2. Useful wine commands

Never run wine as root

2.1. Install .exe

wine setup.exe

2.2. Windows Control Panel

wine control

2.3. Windows Add/Remove Programs

wine uninstaller

2.4. Example with Zotero

wine Zotero-x-y-z.exe

Note that this should install/work even without accepting the prompts to install wine-mono and wine-gecko.