3 Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
4 (including DOS, Windows 3.x, Win32, and Win64 executables) on Unix.
5 It consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
6 Windows binary, and a library (called Winelib) that implements Windows
7 API calls using their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also
8 be used for porting Windows code into native Unix executables.
10 Wine is free software, released under the GNU LGPL; see the file
11 LICENSE for the details.
16 From the top-level directory of the Wine source (which contains this file),
22 Run programs as "wine program". For more information and problem
23 resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page, and
24 especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.org.
29 To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
31 Linux version 2.0.36 or later
33 Solaris x86 9 or later
35 Mac OS X 10.5 or later
37 As Wine requires kernel-level thread support to run, only the operating
38 systems mentioned above are supported. Other operating systems which
39 support kernel threads may be supported in the future.
42 Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD 8.0.
43 See http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine for more information.
46 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
47 (gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
48 will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
49 symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
52 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
53 turned on in your kernel.
56 You need Xcode 2.4 or later to build properly on x86.
57 The Mac driver requires OS X 10.6 or later and won't be built on 10.5.
60 Supported file systems:
61 Wine should run on most file systems. A few compatibility problems
62 have also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also,
63 NTFS does not provide all the file system features needed by some
64 applications. Using a native Unix file system is recommended.
67 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
68 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in Red Hat).
70 Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
72 You also need flex version 2.5.33 or later and bison.
74 Optional support libraries:
75 Configure will display notices when optional libraries are not found
76 on your system. See http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for
77 hints about the packages you should install.
79 On 64-bit platforms, if compiling Wine as 32-bit (default), you have
80 to make sure to install the 32-bit versions of these libraries; see
81 http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit for details. If you want a true
82 64-bit Wine (or a mixed 32-bit and 64-bit Wine setup), see
83 http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64 for details.
92 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
93 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
94 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
95 Windows source code under Unix.
97 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
99 For more information, see https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine
103 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
104 will install the wine executable and libraries, the Wine man page, and
107 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
108 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
111 Once installed, you can run the "winecfg" configuration tool. See the
112 Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for configuration hints.
117 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
120 For example: to run Notepad:
122 wine notepad (using the search Path as specified in
123 wine notepad.exe the registry to locate the file)
125 wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
127 wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
129 wine notepad.exe readme.txt (calling program with parameters)
131 Wine is not perfect, so some programs may crash. If that happens you
132 will get a crash log that you should attach to your report when filing
136 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
138 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
139 http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
140 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
142 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
144 Wiki: The Wine Wiki is located at http://wiki.winehq.org
147 There are several mailing lists for Wine users and developers;
148 see http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
150 Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
151 Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
152 problem is already known or fixed before posting a bug report.
154 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
156 Git: The current Wine development tree is available through Git.
157 Go to http://www.winehq.org/git for more information.
159 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (preferably
160 using git-format-patch) to the wine-patches@winehq.org list for
161 inclusion in the next release.