e-Sword is a great program designed for Windows XP. You can use this program on your Mac using Snow Leopard by following these steps. Thanks to David Baumgold for the first part of this tutorial on how to install wine in OSX.
- Download the latest installer for e-Sword.
- Download the following Dynamic Link Library mfc42.dll. Or search here if this link breaks in the future.
- Install WINE which stands for WINE is not an Emulator by following these directions:
- First, Install XCode from your Snow Leopard DVDs. You can also download xCode 3 for Snow Leopard, but you will need to register for a free apple developer account at Apple’s Developer Website before you can download it. Note that this is a sizable download weighing in at a hefty 4.1 GB so if you have your original install DVD for Snow Leopard, I’d recommend installing from there. Also of note is that xCode 4 is only for Lion and not Snow Leopard, so you can’t download it from the App store!
- Ensure you have X11 installed. If not, download it from the XQuartz Wiki site and install it or install it off your original Snow Leopard disks. If it is already installed, you’ll find it under Applications>Utilities>X11.
- Second install Macports. Macports is a package manager which makes installing and compiling source code a lot easier. Download the DMG file and install it by double clicking it.
- Configure Macports by doing the following. Open Terminal (Applications>Utilities>Terminal) and type the following:
$ echo export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:\$PATH$'\n'export MANPATH=/opt/local/man:\$MANPATH | sudo tee -a /etc/profile
- Enter your password and press return. Enter the following next.
if [ `sysctl -n hw.cpu64bit_capable` -eq 1 ] ; then echo "+universal" | sudo tee -a /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf; else echo "not 64bit capable"; fi
- Close and re-open terminal, then type the following:
sudo port install wine
- Once complete (35-45 minutes on average), change directories to where your downloaded setup file resides. For me that command is:
cd /Users/ryan/Downloads
- Type in the following command to run wine and install the setup file you downloaded. Note, you must do this from the directory where the setup file resides (or enter the full path to the installer after the command wine).
wine setup1005.exe
Note that the setup file may be a different name. This will launch the e-Sword installer. Just walk through the installer accepting the defaults. Once complete, type the following command in your terminal in order to show hidden files in Finder.
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
- After you type the command and execute it by pressing return, you need to restart finder to see the changes. The easiest way I have found to do this is by clicking the apple menu, choose Force Quit …, select Finder in the list and click ReLaunch then confirm by clicking Relaunch in the dialog box that opens. Now open up finder, browse to where you saved mfc42.dd, and then copy the mfc42.dll file into /Users/ryan/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32. Note that ryan will be whatever your home directory is. Mine is named ryan, yours is probably not. While you are in finder, go ahead and copy all of your .bblx, .cmtx, .dctx, .topx files (bibles, commentaries, dictionaries and topic files) into /Users/ryan/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/e-Sword/ directory. Also note that the e-Sword installer created a /Users/ryan/e-Sword directory. You may copy all of your modules in there as an alternative. E-Sword recognizes modules in both directories.
- Next, hide hidden files again by typing:
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
- And again, restart finder for this command to take effect.
- Next open AppleScript Editor by going to your Applications>Utilities menu and click on AppleScript Editor. Copy the following code into the edit box (top large white box with blinking cursor in it).
tell application "Terminal"
do script "/opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\\ Files/e-Sword/e-Sword.exe"
end tell
- After you paste the above into the text box, choose File>Save As…
- Name it e-Sword and under where choose Desktop. Under File Format choose Application. Click Save. The previous steps just created an launcher application so we can call up terminal automatically and tell WINE to run e-Sword for us.
- Now to run e-Sword and enjoy this awesome program under Snow Leopard, just double click the e-Sword icon on your Desktop. After the program loads, feel free to close the terminal window only if it has ended and shows the $ prompt.
I have tested this on a completely clean install of Snow Leopard and it works flawlessly for me. I have not tested this under Lion as I don’t own a copy of Lion yet. If anyone tries these steps on Lion, post a comment and let me know how it worked for you.
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Thanks!
Ryan
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is this legal? I’d like to do this, but doesn’t esword charge to set up on mac already?
Dave
Actually it is legal. Wine is an emulator that allows you to run windows programs under Mac. They created their own routines that do not rely on Windows code which is why they can offer it without violating any copyright or trademark laws from Microsoft. As far as paying for it from Codeweavers (The makers of CrossOver), all CrossOver is doing is wrapping Wine in a nice easy to install and use package, which they then charge you for. The e-Sword program is free. From the e-Sword website: “‘Freely you received, freely give.’ (Matthew 10:8) Jesus told us that since we’ve been blessed we should bless others. I am happy to provide a blessing to others in the form of free Bible study software!”. The Wine package is free (open source). Crossover is not e-Sword specific. They have created a version of wine and have then made easy to install packages that they call CrossTies to install a wide number of software packages, not just e-Sword.
Be sure to see how to make the default AppleScript Icon into an e-Sword icon for easy visual reference by following my tutorial here: http://www.pentecostalblogger.com/2011/11/making-script-app-icons-different/
Thanks, Ryan. I’m not a developer. No experience whatsoever. No interest. Just like eSword and have a mac now. I’m running Lion. I shouldn’t have any issues, right? Nothing damaging?
Hi Ryan
It seemed install correctly but doesn’t run, the following is the contents of the terminal window. Any suggestions?
Last login: Sat Nov 19 14:20:02 on ttys002
/opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/e-Sword/e-Sword.exe
macbook:~ JJMAC$ /opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/e-Sword/e-Sword.exe
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:module:import_dll Loading library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\tx4ole16.ocx”) failed (error c0000020).
err:ole:COMPOBJ_DllList_Add couldn’t load in-process dll L”C:\\windows\\system32\\tx4ole16.ocx”
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9c79c30d-fba0-11df-a609-0013d350667c} could be created for context 0×3
err:module:import_dll Loading library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\tx4ole16.ocx”) failed (error c0000020).
err:module:import_dll Loading library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\tx4ole16.ocx”) failed (error c0000020).
err:ole:COMPOBJ_DllList_Add couldn’t load in-process dll L”C:\\windows\\system32\\tx4ole16.ocx”
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9c79c30d-fba0-11df-a609-0013d350667c} could be created for context 0×3
macbook:~ JJMAC$
You can ignore the last post, I had not actually downloaded the mfc42.dll
But it still doesn’t run.
Last login: Sat Nov 19 15:49:12 on ttys000
/opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/e-Sword/e-Sword.exe
macbook:~ JJMAC$ /opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/e-Sword/e-Sword.exe
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:ole:COMPOBJ_DllList_Add couldn’t load in-process dll L”C:\\windows\\system32\\tx4ole16.ocx”
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9c79c30d-fba0-11df-a609-0013d350667c} could be created for context 0×3
err:ole:COMPOBJ_DllList_Add couldn’t load in-process dll L”C:\\windows\\system32\\tx4ole16.ocx”
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9c79c30d-fba0-11df-a609-0013d350667c} could be created for context 0×3
macbook:~ JJMAC$
First, be sure that you copied the MFC42.DLL into C:\windows\system32\ which should be in the /Users/JJMAC/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 folder. Be sure to show hidden files so you can see the directory to copy and paste the dll in.
Then try restarting your system and see if it works.
If that fails, try installing winetricks by typing:
sudo port install winetricks
into your terminal. When it finishes, start winetricks at the command prompt type:
winetricks vcrun6
This will install the vcrun6 package which is pretty much the same as the MFC42.dll
Well, you should not have any issues. Just to be safe, make a time machine backup of your mac to an external harddrive so you can restore in the event something goofy happens. It shouldn’t though. As far as Lion, I don’t own that OS. I have a mid 2010 Mac with Snow Leopard. I’ve tested this on a clean install of Snow Leopard and everything looks great! If you try this on Lion, please post back and let me know what the results are.
Anyway, all tutorials here are provided for informational purposes only and I cannot be held responsible for any data loss or harm to your computer, however all you’re doing is installing and configuring some pretty thoroughly tested software by a large community of developers so I really doubt anything will go wrong.
Blessings!
Ryan
I have Lion now, and e-Sword runs flawlessly under Lion as well.
Recopying the mfc42.dll did the trick.
Thanks Bro
Welcome! Glad it works for you!
Great instructions and a successful installation with absolutely no hiccups. Just that esword is a little ugly wished could change the display fonts. Thanks for the hint how to give the applescript the right icon as well.
Glad it worked for you!
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