[cw-discuss] How to "install" applications that don't have an installer? (Crossover Mac)

[Jeremy White]

Hi Steve,

If an application doesn't have an installer, then dragging it into the
bottle, and then running it by using the 'Run Program', pick the bottle,
pick the .exe, is your best bet.

Unfortunately, our whole menu creation strategy is tied to programs
that they themselves make program icons; when they don't, we don't
make an icon.  We should probably consider adding that as a feature.

Note, though, that if you just double click on a .exe in the finder,
CrossOver should try to run it in the default bottle, whatever that
is set to be.

Cheers,

Jeremy

public_sjj at mac.com wrote:
> I'm running the Crossover beta on my MacBook and I seem to be able to 
> drag applications I want to be able to run into a "bottle" and then I 
> can run them (although not all of the ones I've tried have worked,  but
> perhaps that is unrelated). Is there some official way to  "install"
> applications that do not come in the form of an installer?  Also a
> related question, presuming that dragging them into the bottle  manually
> is the way to do it, how can I get those applications to  appear in
> Crossover's programs menu? I tried Refreshing the menu, but  it didn't
> work.
> 
> Steve
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