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 (called Winelib) that implements Windows
7 API calls using their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also
8 be used for 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 man page,
24 the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source, and
25 especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.com.
29 To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
31 Linux version 2.0.36 or above
32 FreeBSD 4.x or FreeBSD 5-CURRENT
33 Solaris x86 2.5 or later
37 Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
38 (specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
39 threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
40 consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
41 Also, some bugs were fixed and additional features were added
42 late in the Linux 2.0.x series, so if you have a very old Linux kernel,
43 you may want to upgrade to at least the latest 2.0.x release.
46 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
47 turned on in your kernel.
48 More information including patches for the 4-STABLE branch is in the
50 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/
53 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
54 (gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
55 will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
56 symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
59 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
60 turned on in your kernel.
63 Wine should run on most file systems. However, Wine will fail to start
64 if umsdos is used for the /tmp directory. A few compatibility problems have
65 also been reported using files accessed through Samba.
67 Wine requires kernel-level threads to run. Currently, only Linux
68 version 2.0 or later, FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later,
69 Solaris x86 version 2.5 or later, and NetBSD-current are supported.
70 Other operating systems which support kernel threads may be supported
73 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
74 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
75 To use Wine's support for multi-threaded applications, your X libraries
76 must be reentrant, which is probably the default by now.
77 If you have libc6 (glibc2), or you compiled the X libraries yourself,
78 they were probably compiled with the reentrant option enabled.
80 You also need to have libXpm (and its header files, e.g. xpm.h)
81 installed on your system. The sources for it are available at
82 ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites in the directory
83 /contrib/libraries. If you are using RedHat, libXpm is distributed as
84 packages xpm and xpm-devel. Debian distributes libXpm as xpm4.7,
85 xpm4g, and xpm4g-dev. SuSE calls these packages xpm and xpm-devel.
87 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
88 Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
89 are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
90 management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
93 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and yacc.
94 Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
95 using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
97 In case you want to build the documentation yourself, you'll also
98 need the DocBook tools (db2html, db2ps, db2pdf).
102 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
109 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
110 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
111 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
112 Windows source code under Unix.
114 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
116 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
117 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
118 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
120 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
122 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
123 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
124 run "make depend && make".
129 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
130 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
133 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
134 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
137 If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the
138 documentation directory.
140 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
141 ~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
142 man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
143 The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
144 which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
146 Don't forget to add vital registry entries by applying winedefault.reg
147 with programs/regapi/. See documentation/ for details.
149 See http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml for further configuration hints.
151 In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
152 Wine to run successfully, run "./tools/winecheck | less". You'll get
153 a percentage score indicating "Wine configuration correctness".
154 As this program is alpha, it doesn't run a truly thorough test yet, though,
155 so it should be taken as a first verification step only.
159 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
162 For example: to run Solitaire:
164 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
167 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
169 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
171 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
172 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
174 Wine is not yet complete, so some programs may crash. Provided you set up
175 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
176 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem. For more
177 information on how to do this, please read the file documentation/debugging.
178 If you post a bug report, please read the file documentation/bugreports to
179 see what information is required.
181 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
182 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
183 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
184 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
185 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
186 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
187 can at least partially be fixed by using
188 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
191 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
193 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
194 http://www.winehq.com/ : various user guides, application database,
195 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
197 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ
199 HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
200 http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
202 Usenet: The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
203 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
204 documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
207 Please browse old messages on http://groups.google.com/ to check
208 whether your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report
211 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.openprojects.net.
213 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
214 Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml for more information.
217 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
218 http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
220 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
221 format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com or to the
222 wine-patches@winehq.com mailing list for inclusion in the next