This guide reviews steps for running LDCad for VEX IQ on macOS using Wine. It assumes some basic familiarity with navigating directories using the terminal (with basic commands such as cd
and ls
), but should otherwise be pretty easy to follow.
Wine is described as follows:
Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
Wine could also be used to run LDCad on Linux; however, an official Linux build of LDCad is available so this isn't necessary.