Installing Smartpls on your Mac without parallels

[stephanp]

I found an easy way to install Smartpls on my mac (mountain lion) without having to use parallels and windows.
First, I tried Crossover as a wrapping tool, but that didn't work.

Then, I discovered Winebottler, a free, open source tool. It also wraps Windows applications so that they can be executed on your mac directly.

The procedure:
1) Download Smartpls.exe WITH JRE 6.0
2) Download and Install wine.app and winebottler.app (from http://winebottler.kronenberg.org)
3) Open the winebottler.app; go to 'advanced' then start a 'new prefix'
4) In winebottler: Select smartpls.exe
5) In winebottler: Choose "This is the actual program, copy it and all files that are in the same folder."
6) In winebottler: click on 'install' and give the newly created app a name
7) Open the just created app.

I tried it on 2 different macs; it works like a charm.

Cheers,
Stephan

[crosenkranz]

Thank you for this excellent tip!

[sklug]

Hi Stephan,
great tip!
Do you think this will also work with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8)?

The installation doesn't work right now...

Thanks!!

[stephanp]

Hi Sarah,

Unfortunately, I have no idea whether it can work under Snow Leopard. I only tried on 2 ML macs. It worked without any fuss..

good luck,
Stephan

[jeffstone]

I followed the instructions from the post from stephanp, and indeed it works on Mac OS Mavericks!

[swende]

The new SmartPLS 3 does now work on Mac OSX out of the box. Just download and install the DMG file from http://www.smartpls.com !