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 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
81 Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
82 are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
83 management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
86 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and yacc.
87 Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
88 using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
90 In case you want to build the documentation yourself, you'll also
91 need the DocBook tools (db2html, db2ps, db2pdf).
95 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
102 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
103 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
104 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
105 Windows source code under Unix.
107 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
109 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
110 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
111 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
113 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
115 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
116 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
117 run "make depend && make".
122 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
123 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
126 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
127 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
130 If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the
131 documentation directory.
133 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
134 ~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
135 man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
136 The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
137 which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
139 Don't forget to add vital registry entries by applying winedefault.reg
140 with programs/regapi/. See documentation/ for details.
142 See http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml for further configuration hints.
144 In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
145 Wine to run successfully, run "./tools/winecheck | less". You'll get
146 a percentage score indicating "Wine configuration correctness".
147 As this program is alpha, it doesn't run a truly thorough test yet, though,
148 so it should be taken as a first verification step only.
152 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
155 For example: to run Solitaire:
157 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
160 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
162 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
164 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
165 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
167 Wine is not yet complete, so some programs may crash. Provided you set up
168 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
169 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem. For more
170 information on how to do this, please read the file documentation/debugging.
171 If you post a bug report, please read the file documentation/bugreports to
172 see what information is required.
174 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
175 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
176 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
177 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
178 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
179 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
180 can at least partially be fixed by using
181 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
184 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
186 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
187 http://www.winehq.com/ : various user guides, application database,
188 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
190 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ
192 HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
193 http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
195 Usenet: The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
196 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
197 documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
200 Please browse old messages on http://groups.google.com/ to check
201 whether your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report
204 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.openprojects.net.
206 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
207 Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml for more information.
210 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
211 http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
213 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
214 format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com or to the
215 wine-patches@winehq.com mailing list for inclusion in the next