Launching Winbox on macOS

Launching Winbox on macOS with Retina #

Installing Wine #

Using brew #

brew install --cask --no-quarantine wine-stable

Manual download and unzip #

This method is recommended in the official MikroTik documentation [1], but I have done fine using brew.

  1. Download latest version of Winehq macOS Builds. You need only wine-devel-x.x-osx64.tar.xz version!
  2. Unzip the downloaded file to Applications.
  3. Run Wine Devel. After initialization, the console will be opened. The commands described below should be entered in this console.

Enable Retina mode #

  1. Execute the regedit command
    1. The registry editor will open. In it you need to go to the branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine
    2. Create a key in this branch named Mac Driver.
    3. Inside the created Mac Driver folder, create a string value named RetinaMode with a value of y.
    4. Close regedit window
  2. Execute the wineboot command.
  3. Execute the winecfg command.
    1. Navigate to Graphics tab and select a screen resolution scaling of 220 dpi.
    2. Click OK.
  4. Execute the wineboot command.
  5. Close console.

Dowload Winbox #

Go to the download page of mikrotik.com and download the 64-bit version of Winbox. Or use this direct download link: https://mt.lv/winbox64

Launching Winbox #

Right click on the winbox64.exe file and select “open file with” — Wine Devel.

  1. https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WinBox
  2. https://gist.github.com/mcxiaoke/bd0c779a01f21baad787f49e7b330faa
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