3 Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
4 (including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix. It
5 consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
6 Windows binary, and a library that implements Windows API calls using
7 their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also be used for
8 porting Win32 code into native Unix executables.
10 Wine is free software, and its license (contained in the file LICENSE)
11 is BSD style. Basically, you can do anything with it except claim
16 Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
17 Installer to build and install wine. From the top-level Wine
18 directory (which contains this file), run:
22 Run programs as "wine [options] program". For more information and
23 problem resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine manpage,
24 and the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source.
28 To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
30 Linux version 2.0.36 or above
31 FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later
32 Solaris x86 2.5 or later
34 Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
35 (specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
36 threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
37 consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
39 Similarly if you are on FreeBSD you may want to apply an LDT sharing
40 patch too (unless you are tracking -current where it finally has
41 been committed just recently), and there also is a small sigtrap
42 fix thats needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that its using
43 ptrace() by default it may no longer make a difference but it still
44 doesn't hurt...) And if you're running a system from the -stable
45 branch older than Nov 15 1999, like a 3.3-RELEASE, then you also
46 need to apply a signal handling change that was MFC'd at that date.
47 More information including patches for the -stable branch is in
49 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/
51 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
52 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel-4.0.1-1 in RedHat).
54 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
55 it are available at ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites in the directory
56 /contrib/libraries. If you are using RedHat, libXpm is distributed as the
57 xpm and xpm-devel packages. Debian distributes libXpm as xpm4.7, xpm4g,
58 and xpm4g-dev 3.4j. SuSE calls these packages xpm and xpm-devel.
60 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required. You also need flex version 2.5
61 or later and yacc. Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
62 using RedHat, install the flex and bison packages.
66 To build Wine, run the following commands:
72 This will build the library "libwine.a" and the program "wine".
73 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
74 The library "libwine.a" can be used to compile and link Windows source
77 If you do not intend to compile Windows source code, use
78 "./configure --disable-lib" to skip building the library and reduce disk
79 space requirements. If you have an ELF compiler (which you probably do),
80 you can use "./configure --enable-dll" to build a shared library instead.
81 To see other configuration options, do ./configure --help.
83 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
84 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
85 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
87 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
89 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
90 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
91 run "make depend && make".
96 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
97 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
100 Wine requires a configuration file named wine.conf. Its default location is
101 /usr/local/etc, but you can supply a different name when configuring wine by
102 using the --prefix or --sysconfdir options to ./configure. You can also override
103 the global configuration file with a .winerc file in your home directory.
105 The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file
106 wine.ini contains an example configuration file which has to be adapted
107 and copied to one of the two locations mentioned above.
109 See http://www.winehq.com/config.html for further configuration hints.
114 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
117 For example: to run Solitaire:
119 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
122 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
124 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
126 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
127 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
129 Wine is not yet complete, so some programs may crash. Provided you set up
130 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
131 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem. For more
132 information on how to do this, please read the file documentation/debugging.
133 If you post a bug report, please read the file documentation/bugreports to
134 see what information is required.
137 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
139 DOCU: grep -i "SearchString" `find documentation/`|more
141 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/faq.html.
143 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
144 http://www.winehq.com/. Untested patches against the current release
145 are available on the wine-patches mailing list; see
146 http://www.winehq.com/dev.html#ml for more information.
148 HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
149 http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
151 Usenet: Please browse old messages on http://www.dejanews.com/ to check whether
152 your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report to the
155 The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
156 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
157 documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
160 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on IRCnet.
162 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
163 Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.html for more information.
165 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
166 format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com for inclusion in the next