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 For the impatient, use the Wine Installer to build and install wine.
17 From the top-level Wine directory (which contains this file), run:
21 Run programs as "wine [options] program". For more information and
22 problem resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine manpage,
23 and the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source.
27 To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
29 Linux version 2.0.36 or above
30 FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later
31 Solaris x86 2.5 or later
33 Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
34 (specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
35 threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
36 consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
38 Similarly if you are on FreeBSD you may want to apply an LDT sharing
39 patch too (unless you are tracking -current where it finally has
40 been committed just recently), and there also is a small sigtrap
41 fix thats needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that its using
42 ptrace() by default it may no longer make a difference but it still
43 doesn't hurt...) And if you're running a system from the -stable
44 branch older than Nov 15 1999, like a 3.3-RELEASE, then you also
45 need to apply a signal handling change that was MFC'd at that date.
46 More information including patches for the -stable branch is in
48 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/
50 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
51 it are available at ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites in the directory
52 /contrib/libraries. If you are using RedHat, libXpm is distributed as the
53 xpm and xpm-devel packages. Debian distributes libXpm as xpm4.7, xpm4g,
54 and xpm4g-dev 3.4j. SuSE calls these packages xpm and xpm-devel.
56 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required. You also need flex version 2.5
57 or later and yacc. Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
58 using RedHat, install the flex and bison packages.
62 To build Wine, run the following commands:
68 This will build the library "libwine.a" and the program "wine".
69 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
70 The library "libwine.a" can be used to compile and link Windows source
73 If you do not intend to compile Windows source code, use
74 "./configure --disable-lib" to skip building the library and reduce disk
75 space requirements. If you have an ELF compiler (which you probably do),
76 you can use "./configure --enable-dll" to build a shared library instead.
77 To see other configuration options, do ./configure --help.
79 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
80 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
81 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
83 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
85 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
86 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
87 run "make depend && make".
92 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
93 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
96 Wine requires a configuration file named wine.conf. Its default location is
97 /usr/local/etc, but you can supply a different name when configuring wine by
98 using the --prefix or --sysconfdir options to ./configure. You can also override
99 the global configuration file with a .winerc file in your home directory.
101 The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file
102 wine.ini contains an example configuration file which has to be adapted
103 and copied to one of the two locations mentioned above.
105 See http://www.winehq.com/config.html for further configuration hints.
110 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
113 For example: to run Solitaire:
115 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
118 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
120 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
122 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
123 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
125 Wine is not yet complete, so some programs may crash. You will be dropped
126 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem. For more
127 information on how to do this, please read the file documentation/debugging.
128 If you post a bug report, please read the file documentation/bugreports to
129 see what information is required.
132 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
134 DOCU: grep -i "SearchString" `find documentation/`|more
136 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/faq.html.
138 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
139 http://www.winehq.com/. Untested patches against the current release
140 are available on the wine-patches mailing list; see
141 http://www.winehq.com/dev.html#ml for more information.
143 HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
144 http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
146 Usenet: Please browse old messages on http://www.dejanews.com/ to check whether
147 your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report to the
150 The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
151 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
152 documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
155 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on IRCnet.
157 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
158 Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.html for more information.
160 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
161 format preferred) to julliard@lrc.epfl.ch for inclusion in the next