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.
16 Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
17 Installer to build and install Wine. From the top-level directory
18 of the Wine source (which contains this file), run:
22 Run programs as "wine program". For more information and problem
23 resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page, and
24 especially the wealth of information 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
33 Solaris x86 2.5 or later
37 As Wine requires kernel-level thread support to run, only the operating
38 systems mentioned above are supported.
39 Other operating systems which support kernel threads may be supported
43 While Linux 2.2.x should still work and Linux 2.0.x may still work
44 (older 2.0.x versions had thread-related crashes),
45 it's best to have a current kernel such as 2.4.x.
48 Wine should build on FreeBSD 4.x and FreeBSD 5.x, but versions before
49 FreeBSD 5.3 will generally not work properly.
51 More information can be found in the FreeBSD ports tree at
52 <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/>.
55 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
56 (gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
57 will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
58 symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
61 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
62 turned on in your kernel.
65 You need Xcode 2.4 or later to build properly on x86.
68 Supported file systems:
69 Wine should run on most file systems. However, Wine will fail to start
70 if umsdos is used for the /tmp directory. A few compatibility problems have
71 also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also, as NTFS
72 can only be used safely with readonly access for now, we recommend against
73 using NTFS, as Windows programs need write access almost everywhere.
74 In case of NTFS files, copy over to a writable location.
77 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
78 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in Red Hat).
80 Build tool requirements:
81 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
82 Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
83 are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
86 Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
88 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and bison.
90 Optional support libraries:
91 Run ./configure --verbose to see the optional libraries that could
92 be used but aren't found on your system.
97 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
104 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
105 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
106 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
107 Windows source code under Unix.
109 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
111 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
112 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
113 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
115 bunzip2 -c patch-file | patch -p1
117 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
118 wine-0.9.x.diff.bz2). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
119 run "make depend && make".
124 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
125 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
128 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
129 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
132 See the Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for configuration
135 In case of library loading errors
136 (e.g. "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), make sure
137 to add the library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root.
142 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
145 For example: to run Solitaire:
147 wine sol (using the search Path as specified in
148 wine sol.exe the config file to locate the file)
150 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
152 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
154 wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
155 (calling program with parameters)
157 Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. In that crash
158 you will be dropped into the debugger so that you can investigate and
159 fix the problem. For more information on how to do this, please check
160 the debugging section of the Wine Developer's Guide.
163 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
165 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
166 http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
167 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
169 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
171 Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
172 on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
174 Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
175 Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
176 problem is already found before posting a bug report. You can
177 also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
179 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
181 GIT: The current Wine development tree is available through GIT.
182 Go to http://www.winehq.org/site/git for more information.
185 There are several mailing lists for Wine users and developers;
186 see http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
188 Wiki: The Wine Wiki is located at http://wiki.winehq.org
190 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
191 format) to wine-patches@winehq.org list for inclusion in the next