WineskinServer VS wine-staging

Compare WineskinServer vs wine-staging and see what are their differences.

wine-staging

Staging repository for Wine; mirror of https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine-staging - Bugtracker and Patches: https://bugs.winehq.org/ (by wine-staging)
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WineskinServer wine-staging
165 23
2,249 639
- 1.3%
8.3 9.4
1 day ago 10 days ago
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GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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WineskinServer

Posts with mentions or reviews of WineskinServer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-10.
  • Steam won´t install via Wine
    1 project | /r/wine_gaming | 6 Dec 2023
  • Running Windows Programs on Mac (Wineskin)
    1 project | /r/mac | 29 Nov 2023
    I used Wineskin to port them both to MacOS and the https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-run-windows-apps-on-your-mac web page as a guide. I just used a regular windows .ico file to change the icon in the guide. Somehow converting the .ico as it is stated in the guide did not work for me. You can download Wineskin Winery from (https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer) and use manual installation. They both needed .NET framework. That was easy with the Winetricks to find the .NET frameworks under DLL section and then run them. 1st program needed to access network shares in the domain but the link was in windows format (\\ServerName\ShareName\Folder).
  • Need to run polymath on mac apple silicon
    1 project | /r/mac | 21 Nov 2023
    You can also try running it in WINE using Wineskin:https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer/
  • Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening, There Aren't Enough Players
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
    You may be interested in Wineskin for M1/M2 Macs. I use this to play some old school games on my 2023 M2 Max Mac. https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer
  • Horizon: Zero Dawn slo-mo
    1 project | /r/macgaming | 6 Sep 2023
    Can anyone demonstrate to me how to fix the slo-mo issue in Horizon: Zero Dawn that slows down the game speed. I am aware of the GitHub article here: https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer/issues/424 although I am unaware of how to perform the registry tasks that is required to fix the issue.
  • iOS
    1 project | /r/project1999 | 29 Jun 2023
    I do play on an M2 Mac via Wineskin. Works great.
  • Any way to run .exe files on Mac?
    1 project | /r/mac | 28 Jun 2023
    I use this wrapper for WINE. That it "doesn't seem to work" when you use what you've installed from the command line doesn't tell us much. What did you do after installing it? What happened?
  • Error while trying to install Crossover on Mac
    1 project | /r/macgaming | 28 Jun 2023
    I believe your issues might be because crossover is not supported on sonoma yet, its probably because sonoma is still in beta and so not much aplications can run on it, i found that wineskin server (https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer) works pretty nicely on sonoma so maybe try that.
  • Use D3DMetal on Wine 8.10 Staging
    2 projects | /r/macgaming | 28 Jun 2023
    Hi, I followed this guide of u/Gcenx https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer/issues/420 and applied on wine 8.10 staging (this version https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases/tag/8.10) but it seems like it doesn't work I always get a stub error. My question is: I need to do something else or D3DMetal simply doesn't work on newer wine version
  • Is Portingkit safe to download? + Assorted questions
    1 project | /r/macgaming | 27 Jun 2023
    You get Wineskin from my repo https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer

wine-staging

Posts with mentions or reviews of wine-staging. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-16.
  • Why won’t my game play full screen ? Launched via Wine
    1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 12 Sep 2022
    Now you can't just go from vanilla WINE to WINE Staging by installing stuff. You would have to patch the source code of WINE with all those patches: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/tree/master/patches and then compile it yourself.
  • Windows? Never more!
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 4 Sep 2022
    Read this for more info: https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine-Staging
  • Wine-staging doesn't compile
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 7 Aug 2022
    I've got the source from here and applied the patch as it says here
  • Another Proton-GE vs Wine-GE thread...
    8 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 16 Jul 2022
    vkd3d-proton: - occasional upstream pending patches wine: - uses proton's bleeding edge wine base: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/tree/experimental-wine-bleeding-edge-7.0-20190-20220716-pe79367-w7a9d8c-d5aa943-v5b7313 - adds wine-staging on top of it: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/tree/master/patches - adds FSR patches on top of it: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/proton/48-proton-fshack\_amd\_fsr.patch - adds a handful of other game fixes on top of it: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/e01207aafe539d8d3ed49301665da717340e4c1d/patches/protonprep-valve-staging.sh#L295 - removes the proton-specific steamclient changes so that it works as a normal wine build: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/proton/0001-De-steamify-proton-s-WINE-so-it-can-be-used-as-a-sta.patch ffmpeg: - we enable some codecs not available in steam's ffmpeg gstreamer: - we enable some codecs not available in steam's gstreamer protonfixes: - these are python scripts that automate installing various winetricks and/or other per-game tweaks. this achieves the same thing most lutris installers perform. -------------------------
  • zsh: killed wine (attempting to compile wine for M1 mac)
    2 projects | /r/winehq | 12 May 2022
    USE "HOMEBREW" https://brew.sh/ Or "MACPORTS" https://www.macports.org/ As subsystem or wrapper to help wine to be stable. I trying homebrew for a week right now with many versions of wine ( stable & bev , etc The fastest WINE wrapper updated is WINE STAGING. 🍷 https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging
  • How to get Splice working
    1 project | /r/linuxaudio | 4 Apr 2022
    Install Wine Staging and winetricks. Then create a new 64 bit prefix. You can run winetricks for this.
  • Winetricks does a weird thing when I try to install...
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 26 Mar 2022
    It's possible there's blockers for it not being updated, but you can also get a general idea as to how long updates on Fedora's end takes by comparing the dates on that site to the releases on Staging's GitHub.
  • Considering selling my AMD 6700 XT but before I do I'm wondering if my issues have an easy solution.
    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 1 Jan 2022
    These patches are missing: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/tree/master/patches/winepulse-PulseAudio_Support
  • FFXI + Windower and the Steam Deck
    1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 7 Nov 2021
    FFXI should run fine on Steam Deck as it's reported as Gold in ProtonDB but, as I'm used to play the game on Windows, it can be fully enhanced/HD remastered with a lot of graphical and QOL community mods (Ref. here) which are all based on Windower - This is probably a core issue for the SD trying to run this third party/"dll injector". After having a chat with Windower support on Discord, I found out that the main issue is this commit in Wine. Now it would be great to know if this commit will be included in the Proton build used by the SD - Keeping it short: Proton is basically Valve's implementation of Wine. I'm definitely going to try this as soon as I have my hands on the SD as FFXI is still such a great/unique MMORPG and I would also suggest to check it out to everyone having a few friends to bring in.
  • Ntsync module (now called winesync) proposal for linux. Fascinating read.
    1 project | /r/programming | 31 Aug 2021
    Source: git mirror's contributor graphs located at wine-staging.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WineskinServer and wine-staging you can also consider the following projects:

PD-Runner - A VM launcher for Parallels Desktop [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]

wine-ge-custom - My custom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot.

macOS_Wine_builds - Official Winehq macOS Packages

wine-tkg-git - The wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds

Whisky - A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI

dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine

homebrew-wine

dosbox-staging - DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

devilutionX - Diablo build for modern operating systems

wine-lol - Patched wine-staging with fix needed to run League Of Legends

MoltenVK - MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on iOS and macOS.

wine-lol - Patched wine-staging with fix needed to run League Of Legends