Skydemon Wineskin Instructions

  1. Download the Skydemon PC installable from Skydemon website. We’ll use this later.
  2. Download Winery.app 1.7 (http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php?page=Downloads )
  3. Install Winery
  4. Click the + button to install engine WS9Wine1.9.2 (nb: You may wish to try a more recent version if available, but 1.9.2 is known to work)
  5. Click ‘Create new wrapper’ to create a new wrapper, and call it something like ‘Skydemon’
  6. If prompted to allow incoming connections, click Allow.
  7. It will install for a few minutes, then when prompted click ‘view wrapper in finder’
  8. Right click on the new wrapper, and ‘Show package contents’
  9. Then run the application ‘Wineskin’ from within the package contents.
  10. Click Advanced, then Tools, and then Winetricks
  11. Browse to DLLs and selected ‘DOTNET35SP1’ and ‘GDIPLUS’ and then run.
  12. Follow the windows wizard prompts to install .Net
  13. When complete, click Close to exit Winetricks.
  14. You should now be back at Wineskin Advanced.
  15. Click the configuration tab.
  16. Click ‘Install Software’ and then ‘Choose set-up executable’.
  17. Select the Skydemon installable that you downloaded earlier, and follow the prompts.
  18. At the end of the Skydemon installation, untick the box to ‘Run Skydemon now’
  19. You’ll then get a dialogue box asking you to choose the executable, choose: program files/skydemon/skydemon.exe
  20. Now click ‘Test Run’.

This concludes the basic installation. If it is working, there is more to do to get things like PDF and Google Earth integration working, and to store personal files in personal folders:

Download this file of extras for the following steps:

extras.zip

Personal folders:

  1. Locate the new Skydemon Wineskin application, and right-click, then ‘show package contents’.
  2. You’ll see a folder called Content and inside that one called Resources
  3. Copy WineskinStartupScript into this folder replacing the existing file of the same name (this contains some scripting to use the user’s personal folder for storing application data)

PDF and Google Earth:

  1. Run Wineskin (from the ‘show package contents’ step)
  2. Click Tools and the regedit (this sometimes takes quite a while to load)
  3. Then from the registry menu import kml_and_pdf.reg
  4. This sets up the registry entries to open PDF files and Google Earth

Icons:

  1. Finally, on the ‘configuration tab’ you can change the icon to the one included in the extras zip