While circularMT is written in c#.NET and so geared to running on a Windows PC, it is possible to run any Windows application on Linux or macOS using Wine. According to Wine's website:
Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
Basically, Wine sits in between a Windows application and the operating system and catches any messages they send each other and converts them from what they don't understand to something they do understand, a bit like how an translator allows a German speaker to have a conversation with a Spanish speaker.
Since Wine can work on a range of operating systems, how it is installed depends on which flavour of Linux (or macOS) you are using. The Wine website as instructions for installing Wine on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, macOS, SUSE, Slackware and FreeBSD on their downloads page. However, unlike installing applications on Windows, the process can be a little demanding for some OS'es. Consequently, below are links to four short guides that show how I installed Wine on openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian and Centos via different routes. These guides expect you to have a reasonable understanding of how to install applications on Linux or the willingness to search online for the solution to any issues.
Note: The operating systems used in this guide were installed two different types of virtual machines hosted by by Oracle's VirtualBox on a Windows 10 computer and on Microsoft's Hyper-V on a Windows 11 computer, however, this should not affect how they functioned. The installation was performed on a freshly installed OS.
Note: The commands described to install Wine require admin/superuser rights which may mean that the installation needs to be done by the IT department on a works computer ot that you may be expected to install them in a conda environment.
If you get the message below:
it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"
open the Software & Updates form and select the Security and recommended updates option (Figure 1), enter your admin password (multiple times), close the form, update/reload if requested and then run the command:
sudo apt-get install wine32
Figure 1
If not prompted to do so during the set up you may have to add a wine-mono package to the installation. This can be downloaded from the wine-mono web page (https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-mono/), for this installation the wine-mono-9.1.0-x86.msi file was used. To link this file to the wine installation use the wine uninstaller by entering:
wine uninstaller
in a terminal, pressing the Install button and selecting the file (Figure 5b).
Figure 2