How to make SMILE run on OSX?

[Shadowing234]

Hi, sorry if this was asked before but I couldn't find any information anywhere else throughout the entire forum and after a lot of searching on google. How do you get SMILE to run on my Mac without installing Windows to run it? I use Wine and it doesn't seem to run when opened. Maybe I'm missing certain compatibilities? Please answer soon, thank you.

PS - If this post breaks any rules, please message me to repost it in the right thread or move the post itself to the right thread.

[thedopefish]

You're pretty screwed, I'm afraid.  Certain people have gotten certain versions of SMILE to run under wine occasionally, but generally speaking it simply doesn't work.

Some of us Linux and Mac users have a Windows VM (via virtualbox or parallels for example), which is probably the best compromise right now.

[Quote58]

The version of smile uploaded on the main site under tools mentions that it has a version used under wine with it. It says it doesn't have all the functionality, but it might be able to get you somewhere, so if you haven't already I suggest trying it out.

[Raccoon Sam]

I was able to run SMILE back in like 2010 on Snow Leopard no problem with Codeweavers CrossOver and Wine. I can't remember doing anything special, it just worked.
Today I can barely get it to open with manually including some DLLs but even then it immediately breaks when I do anything. No idea what happened.

thedopefish is right, though. Download VirtualBox and install Tiny7 or a similar bare-bones Windows. You can share your filesystem between the macOS and Windows worlds and if all you're going to do is running SMILE and a SNES emulator, you should have no problem using the "seamless mode" VirtualBox provides.