Top Tip: Running Perl Regex Coach on OS/X
Posted by Alec The Geek on 16 November 2011
(updated Mar/2012)
If you’ve used the excellent Regex Coach for Perl programmers on Windows but have been dissapointed that the current version does not run on Mac OS/X, fear not. You can build Wine and then it runs well.
- Install HomeBrew
- Run the command
brew install wine && brew install winetricks && winetricks vcrun2005 - Download the Regex Coach installer
- Run the command
wine regex-coach.exeto install - To run Regex Coach run the command
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/The\ Regex\ Coach/The\ Regex\ Coach.exe
The equivalent process also works for the Linux
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