It was a while back that I attempted to run MetaTrader on Mac. A couple of years past and some new options available warrant a new post. This time I’m using a porting tool called Wineskin. It is based on Wine, same as Codeweavers Crossover we tried last time. Let’s get straight to pros and cons.

1. Wineskin For Mac Os Sur
2. How To Use Wineskin Mac

Pros and Cons.

Pros:

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• Both Wine and Wineskin are open-source projects and running MetaTrader with them won’t cost you a dime. You don’t even need a Windows licence. It’s all free.
• It creates a wrapper around our Windows application, which looks like a native OSX application bundle and switching between windows (say, trading terminal and MetaEditor) is no different than any other OSX application. That also means you can transfer or share your bundle if you want to.
• Since it is based on Wine, which use isn’t limited to OSX, we can leverage all the experience and know-how of Linux crowd. In fact, I referred to quite a few Linux-based how-to’s while exploring the subject.
• There’s quite a community around these projects and they are constantly improving.

Cons:

• Apparently you may run into some stability issues here and there, but that pretty much depends on the quality of the wrapper you create using these tools.

Install Wineskin Winery and create a wrapper

As mentioned above you can share the final application bundle, although sometimes it may be too hefty. My MetaTrader bundle got to almost 300Mb, for instance, but it can easily go into gigabytes if you download some history data for EA tester. Therefore, we are going to have a look at creating our own bundle here.

First thing you need to install Wineskin. Head down to the Download page on Wineskin website and get Wineskin Winery. Just run it and generate a new wrapper. It should be pretty straightforward even without reading a Wineskin’s manual. When prompted give it a name, ‘MetaTrader4’ will do.

Set up your wrapper

Now that you’ve got your wrapper you’re going to do some setup within it as if you would be setting up a Windows virtual machine instance. Wineskin Winery does put wrappers into “unusual” location, but it offers you to open them in Finder after they are complete, or just look up your new wrapper by the name you gave it using OSX’s Spotlight. Right-click the wrapper file and select “Show Package Contents”. Inside the package you’ll see ‘Wineskin’ app and the ‘drive_c’ folder with typical Windows folder structure. That’s what you’re going to work with now.

First, launch Wineskin app (the one inside your package). Click “Advanced” button and then select “Tools” tab. There’s lots of useful stuff here if you are a technical mastermind. But if you are not, just hit “Winetricks” button in “Utilities” column.

Basically, Winetricks lets you install Windows framework components your application needs without copying files manually.

1. Type ‘vcrun6’ into the search field. You’ll see a bunch of packages satisfying your search string. Look up the latest service pack available (it was ‘vcrun6sp6’ at the time of writing), click the checkbox, hit “Run”. It will install the base packages it needs.
2. Do the same for ‘ie6’. This is necessary for the built-in MQL reference in MetaEditor to work.
3. You could also use Winetricks to install fonts. There’s an “allfonts” option, which might be an overkill, and “corefonts” option, but I’m not sure if it includes Windings font used by MetaTrader. So instead of installing via Winetricks you may manually copy your own set of default fonts into ‘drive_c/windows/Fonts’ folder inside your wrapper.

Install MetaTrader 4

Close Winetricks. Back to main Wineskin screen, hit “Install Windows Software”, select the MetaTrader installer you’ve downloaded and follow its prompts. At the end Wineskin prompts you for the main EXE file, but you can always change that on the ‘WineskinAdvancedConfiguration’ page. The file launching MT4 is called ‘terminal.exe’.

If you want to set the icon for MetaTrader you can do it on the same ‘WineskinAdvancedConfiguration’ page. Create your own ‘.icns’ file using OSX’s Icon Composer or feel free to use mine.

When you’re done you may want to copy ‘config’ folder from your existing Windows installation of MetaTrader4. That will transfer your previous server connection lists as well as your MetaTrader account details and layouts. Just make sure you are not trying to connect to one broker’s servers while using an installer from another.

Testing it

Now you can exit Wineskin app and close the Finder window showing your bundle contents. To run MT4 you launch the ‘MetaTrader4’ application bundle generated by Wineskin Winery at the very beginning.

On a cursory look it is an improvement over Crossover version 8 I used back then. Everything seems to be smooth – the interface (drag&drop, fonts, icons and other stuff), charts, indicators, expert advisors (didn’t test DLL import, but can’t see a reason for it not to work) and strategy tester (including visualisation), opening a trade from the market (didn’t test other orders, but again should be alright), MQL editor.

Two things didn’t work for me:

• Intellisense/keywords completion in MetaEditor. It opens the popup window, but fails to load the data. What’s promising it doesn’t cause the application to freeze or crash, plus the whole intellisense business worked beautifully for me in MetaTrader 5 under Wineskin, so possibly someone will have another go at it. Even function signature popup works fine as you can see in the screenshot above, but the keyword completion doesn’t for some reason. By the way, to remove the standard OSX window header from the intellisense popup, tick the “Force use of wrappers quartz-wm…” checkbox on ‘WineskinAdvancedOptions’ page.
• F1 help. Pressing F1 causes the application to crash, even though it opens fine from the main menu. But who needs it anyway.

If something goes wrong

If you experience any kind of runtime issues and you are adventurous enough to dive deeper into setup and troubleshooting business, Debug Mode is of great help. Instead of launching the bundle go to package contents, then open ‘WineskinAdvancedConfiguration’ page and hit “Test Run (Debug Mode)”, replicate the issue and close the program. After that Wineskin will let you check the runtime logs, where you may find a clue to a missing or misbehaving component.

For reference, I used FXCM’s MetaTrader 4 Build 418 with Wineskin Wrapper version 2.5.4 and Engine version WS8Wine1.5.0, OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.

1. Download and Install WineSkin Winery on your Mac

• Download Wineskin from their official website.
• Wineskin runs on the following MAC devices;
  1. OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  2. OS X 10.7 Lion
  3. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
  4. OS X 10.9 Mavericks
  5. OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Make sure you have the right MAC OS configuration.

• Once the download is complete, the following will be the installation process.
• Open the downloaded file on the desktop.
• Click on the (+) button on the file that opens followed by download to get the engine required to run Wineskin on your MAC device.
• In the next step, you’ll need to update the wrapper. Click on “Update” to download the latest wrapper.
• Now, to install a new program click on “Create New Blank Wrapper” named “Cisco Packet Tracer”.

2. Free Download and Install the Cisco Packet Tracer 6.0.1

• Download Cisco Packet Tracer

Open Wineskin and click on “View Wrapper and Finder”.

Double click on the previously created wrapper “Cisco Packet Tracer”. Obviously, it will be empty.

Wineskin For Mac Os Sur

Now, click on “Install Software” when the option appears followed by “Choose Setup Executable”.

• The file menu will open, find the downloaded “Cisco Packet Tracer” in the download menu and “Choose” the Exe.
• The Wineskin will run it and the Setup for Cisco will emerge.
• Click on Next > I accept and Next > Next > Next

• Create a shortcut on the desktop.

• Click “Ok” and “Finish” to end the installation process.

• An option will appear that says “the programs executable file set in Wineskin is currently not found”. Here, you’ll need to click on the drop-down menu and choose the Cisco Packet Tracer Exe file and click on Ok.

  Now go back to double tap on the “Cisco Packet Tracer” wrapper created on Wineskin.

• Wallah! You’ll see the Cisco Packet Tracer 6.0.1 opening on your Mac OS.

Cisco Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Features

The Cisco Packet Tracer 6.0.1 comes with the following features:

• Basic Improvements

• CAB-HD8-ASYNC cable

• Circling tool

• Terminal server for routers

• IPv6 in IP Configuration for Desktop

• PC Firewall for IPv4 and IPv6

• Updated to Activity Wizard and Variable Manager

• Servers with 2 NICs

• Hardware Updates

• Cisco 1941 Integrated Service Router

• Cisco 2901 Integrated Service Router

• Cisco 2911 Integrated Service Router

• HWIC-2T (Cisco One- and 2-Port Serial High-Speed WAN Interface Card)

• HWIC-8A (Cisco 8-Port Asynchronous High-Speed WAN Interface Card)

• Router show line as:

• Tty Line Typ Tx/Rx

• 0/0/0 3 TTY 9600/9600

• 0/0/1 4 TTY 9600/9600

• 0/0/2 5 TTY 9600/9600

• 0/0/3 6 TTY 9600/9600

• 0/0/4 7 TTY 9600/9600

• 0/0/5 8 TTY 9600/9600

• 0/0/6 9 TTY 9600/9600

• 0/0/7 10 TTY 9600/9600

• IOS Update

The Cisco version 6.0.1 is delivered with the Mac iOS 15 6.0.1 is delivered with IOS 15.1(4)M4 (C1900-UNIVERSALK9-M and C2900-UNIVERSALK9-M) i.e. inclusive of IPbase license. This can be applied for 60 fee periods with CLI commands as:

Security (Cisco 1941, Cisco 2901, Cisco 2911): license boot module c2900 technology-package securityk9

Unified communications (Cisco 2901 and Cisco 2911 only): license boot module c2900 technology-package uck9

Cisco Packet Tracer 7.0 Feature

The latest addition to the Cisco Packet Tracer is its new 7.0 update. The same can be downloaded by following the above steps. The only change would be to download the new Cisco Packet Tracer 7.0 exe file. Its features include:

• Precision Time Protocol (P2P) introduced

• LLDP and SPAN protocols added

• Wireless IOE RFID added

• Support of PoE is improved

• the modifiable environment for demonstrating IoT devices capabilities updated

• The Cisco HTTP server supports CSS and Javascript

• customizable IOE with wireless or wired network functionalities

• Support for IPV$ and IPV6

• IoT protocol support included

EndNote

The Cisco Packet Tracer is an extremely important software for IT students who are keen on learning various router and networking applications. A lot of them can’t afford the high cost of buying new software. Cisco Packet tracer saves both time and money.

If you have been stuck figuring out a way to get Cisco Tracer on your device this tutorial should have solved all your queries. For any further queries mention your doubts in the comment section below.

How To Use Wineskin Mac

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