winbox-mac is MikroTik Winbox bundled into macOS app with Wine. Wine is compiled by Gcenx with minimal set of dependencies. Icon is provided by Lucas di Lucca. This is not official MikroTik build and is not related to Mikrotik in any way.
Mikrotik has released a preview of Winbox that is cross platform native for Windows, Mac, and Linux! We are tracking its development, and the implications of future support of this project in this issue: #155. Please see this issue for discussion regarding missing features between Winbox 3 and 4.
Can be easily installed with Homebrew Cask:
brew install --cask nrlquaker-winboxRecommended way to update is to use Homebrew Cask:
brew update
brew upgrade --cask nrlquaker-winbox
You can pass command line arguments as follow:
open /Applications/Winbox-mac.app --args ip login password
To properly import/export addresses or use upload/download you have to run Winbox-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/startwine from CLI or add /usr/bin/env to Security & Privacy → Privacy → Full Disk Access. To be able to see hidden files in file choosing dialog press Cmd + Shift + .. Or you can use /tmp folder.
Please make sure that you are using bug report template and checklist is complete. Otherwise it may be closed without review.
If you like this project and you find it useful help me to improve it. First of all check if there are some help needed issues. Or you can improve code or documentation.
Current version is based on Winbox 3.41.
Wine version is 9.0 stable.
Please check versioning for versioning scheme explanation.
There are two changelogs in this project. One related to Winbox-mac, the other one is for original Winbox.
winbox-mac is released under the MIT License