nextnanomat is programmed in C#, and can thus be executed on any operating system. It is, however, developed on and optimized for Windows. On macOS, you have to either install Mono or Wine to run nextnanomat.

However we strongly recommend using Wine!

• Install XQuartz (version 2.7.7 or later)
• Install “Wine Stable” for macOS
• Install “winetricks” as follows:
  • Open “Wine stable“ from Applications or Launchpad
  • Terminal window shows up with a short introduction of important commands.
  • Run

    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

  • Enter the password of your computer.
  • Run

    brew install winetricks

    .

• Install .NET Framework using winetricks:
  • Run

    winetricks dotnet45

  • Follow the instructions and ignore Warnings.
  • Restart the computer.
• Open “Wine stable” again.
  • Install basic fonts of Windows:

    winetricks corefonts

  • Configure Wine:

    winecfg

  • Window pups up. Select “Windows 10”.
• To run nextnanomat using Wine,

  wine /<your directory>/nextnanomat.exe

If you have any feedback on these instructions, please let us know, then we can keep our documentation up to date.

We can also provide a command line version of nextnano for Mac on request.

You can contact us at support@nextnano.com.