Remove anything existing that contradicts these settings. The paths in the following presume you named your app BeyondCompare.app so these may be adjusted as necessary.Īdd the following to your ~/.gitconfig file. Choose BCompare.exe when it asks you for the default executable ( BComp.exe is for batch scripting). After the installer completes Beyond Compare may pop up if you've left the launch checkbox checked. I named mine as BeyondCompare.app and paths later will reflect this.įollow the installer. It will ask you to save your App, do so in /Applications. I chose /nobackups because I don't want backups and they are turned off by default anyway.Ĭlick Install. To get around this we can pass it an innocuous argument ( see arguments). IMPORTANT: WineBottler passes a blank argument if you leave the Runtime Arguments blank, which Beyond Compare interprets as the first filename - an annoying bug that took me months to figure out.
Check the Self-contained checkbox to make a stand alone application. To my knowledge no Winetricks are necessary.
#Compare tool for mac install#
In the left pane choose "Create Custom Prefixes", then for the Install File, choose the Beyond Compare Installer downloaded earlier. Then download the Windows version of the Beyond Compare Installer and hang onto it. Just drag the WineBottler.app and Wine.app into your /Applications directory. The first step is to download WineBottler if you don't already have it. Ends up it then passes the first argument as an empty string, which prevented the first argument being a file! Huzzah, an easy fix, pass it an innocuous argument! So here are some directions on getting it set up! Beyond Compare Installation / Configuration On creating the bottle it asks you for arguments to pass the executable, I had not provided any. I've had Beyond Compare running in WineBottler for a while now, but was never able to get passing arguments to work correctly.
I've tried every single diff tool available and none have lived up to Beyond Compare. I switched from Windows to Mac for work a little over a year ago (I've been using Macs at home for years) and there is one program I still could not live without - Scooter Software's wonderful Beyond Compare. Instructions and an updated post are here! Update : The Mac Beta is now available and there is no reason to use WineBottler anymore.
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