• Table of contents
• Crossover
• Wine
  • Install Wine
  • Create a 32 bit Wine prefix
  • Download Winetricks
  • Install .NET using Winetricks
  • Run AdiIRC with Wine
  • Wine themes
  • Headless wine
  • Glitched text selection

Crossover¶

Codeweavers Crssover has a bottle for AdiIRC which installs all the necessary dependencies for .NET 4.5, seems to work pretty good on both macOS and Linux.

Wine¶

Installing AdiIRC in Wine on 64 bit Ubuntu/Debian and macOS.

Wine is a Windows compatibility layer which allows you to run many Windows programs on Linux/macOS.

Winetricks is a script to help you install various Windows components and programs.

AdiIRC does NOT work in mono.

It should work on other Linux distributions as well, as long as a recent Wine version is installed.

Install Wine¶

On Ubuntu/Debian Type:

apt-get install wine cabextract

If the wine version in your Ubuntu/Debian repository is old, you can get the latest version from https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu.

On macOS type:

# If homebrew is not installed, type
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" 

# Then install Wine through homebrew
brew install wine

Create a 32 bit Wine prefix¶

Wine does not work well with running 64 bit .NET applications, so you must create a 32 bit wine folder.

Type:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg

Download Winetricks¶

Type:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

Install .NET using Winetricks¶

If you downloaded the 32 bit .NET 4.5 version of AdiIRC, type:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 ./winetricks dotnet45

If you downloaded the 32 bit .NET 2.0 version of AdiIRC, type:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 ./winetricks dotnet20

Run AdiIRC with Wine¶

After .NET is installed, you should be able to run AdiIRC by typing:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine AdiIRC.exe

Wine themes¶

It's possible to skin Wine/Windows programs to look more native in a Linux environment, check https://askubuntu.com/questions/219791/improve-gui-appearance-of-wine-applications/756781 for examples.

Headless wine¶

There has been some success running Wine headless using xvfb through screen.

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 screen xvfb-run wine AdiIRC.exe

Glitched text selection¶

If you have glitches when selecting text in the text area, try changing the message font to another font, preferably a monospaced font.