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, released under the GNU LGPL; see the file
11 LICENSE for the details.
15 Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
16 Installer to build and install Wine. From the top-level directory
17 of the Wine source (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 man page,
23 the files in the documentation directory of the Wine source
24 (see "DOCUMENTATION"), and especially the wealth of information
25 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 above
32 FreeBSD 4.x or FreeBSD 5-CURRENT or later
33 Solaris x86 2.5 or later
36 As Wine requires kernel-level thread support to run, only the operating
37 systems mentioned above are supported.
38 Other operating systems which support kernel threads may be supported
42 While Linux 2.2.x should still work and Linux 2.0.x may still work
43 (older 2.0.x versions had thread-related crashes),
44 it's best to have a current kernel such as 2.4.x.
47 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG
48 options turned on in your kernel. More information is in the ports
49 tree: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/
52 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
53 (gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
54 will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
55 symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
58 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
59 turned on in your kernel.
63 Supported file systems:
64 Wine should run on most file systems. However, Wine will fail to start
65 if umsdos is used for the /tmp directory. A few compatibility problems have
66 also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also, as NTFS
67 can only be used safely with readonly access for now, we recommend against
68 using NTFS, as Windows programs need write access almost everywhere.
69 In case of NTFS files, copy over to a writable location.
72 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
73 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
75 Build tool requirements:
76 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
77 Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
78 are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
79 management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
82 Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
84 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and bison. If you are
85 using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
87 Optional support libraries:
88 If you want CUPS printing support, please install both cups and cups-devel
91 For the automatic processing of the test suite scripts, you also need
92 libperl development header support (libperl-dev package on Debian).
94 For requirements in case you intend to build the documentation yourself,
95 see "DOCUMENTATION" section.
99 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
106 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
107 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
108 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
109 Windows source code under Unix.
111 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
113 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
114 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
115 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
117 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
119 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
120 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
121 run "make depend && make".
125 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
126 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
129 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
130 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
133 If you want to read the documentation supplied with the Wine source,
134 see the "DOCUMENTATION" section.
136 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
137 ~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
138 man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
139 The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
140 which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
142 See the Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for further
145 In case of library loading errors
146 (e.g. "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), make sure
147 to add the library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root.
151 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
154 For example: to run Solitaire:
156 wine sol (using the search Path as specified in
157 wine sol.exe the config file to locate the file)
159 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
161 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
163 wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
164 (calling program with parameters)
166 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
167 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
169 Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. Provided you set up
170 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
171 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem.
172 For more information on how to do this, please read the file
173 documentation/debugging.sgml.
175 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
176 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
177 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
178 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
179 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
180 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
181 can at least partially be fixed by using
182 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
186 Some documentation (various Wine Guides etc.) can be found in the
187 documentation/ directory (apart from also being available on WineHQ).
189 If you want to process the SGML files in there, then you can run "make doc"
190 in the documentation/ directory.
191 Doing so requires the sgml tools package (for db2html, db2ps, db2pdf) named:
192 Debian: docbook-utils
193 Mandrake: sgml-tools-A.B.C-DDmdk
194 SuSE: docbktls-A.BB.C-DD
196 8. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
198 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
199 http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
200 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
202 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
204 Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
205 on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
207 Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
208 Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
209 problem is already found before posting a bug report. You can
210 also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
211 Please read the file documentation/bugs.sgml to see what
212 information is required.
214 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
216 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
217 Go to http://www.winehq.org/cvs for more information.
220 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
221 http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
223 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
224 format) to wine-patches@winehq.org list for inclusion in the next