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Wine is a great tool to run Windows software on other platforms such as macOS or on a linux distribution. The acronym “Wine” stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator” and delivers a Windows compatibility layer on multiple platforms.

When it comes down to running .NET applications in Wine, we may encounter error messages similar to:

fixme:mscoree:parse_supported_runtime sku=L”.NETFramework,Version=v4.0″ not implemented
fixme:mscoree:parse_probing privatePath=L”assemblies” not implemented
The entry point method could not be loaded

First off, we’ve to install winetricks – a helper script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries needed to run some programs in Wine.

macOS:

brew update
brew install winetricks

Debian:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install winetricks

Afterwards we may simple install the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5:

winetricks dotnet45

And surprisingly .NET applications should work great afterwards.

wine myApplication.exe