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.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 at least 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
47 options turned on in your kernel. More information is in the ports
48 tree: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/
51 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
52 (gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
53 will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
54 symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
57 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
58 turned on in your kernel.
61 Wine should run on most file systems. However, Wine will fail to start
62 if umsdos is used for the /tmp directory. A few compatibility problems have
63 also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also, as NTFS
64 can only be used safely with readonly access for now, we recommend against
65 using NTFS, as Windows programs need write access almost everywhere.
66 In case of NTFS files, copy over to a writable location.
68 Wine requires kernel-level threads to run. Currently, only Linux
69 version 2.0 or later, FreeBSD 4.x or later, Solaris x86 version 2.5
70 or later, and NetBSD-current are supported.
71 Other operating systems which support kernel threads may be supported
74 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
75 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
76 To use Wine's support for multi-threaded applications, your X libraries
77 must be reentrant, which is probably the default by now.
78 If you have libc6 (glibc2), or you compiled the X libraries yourself,
79 they were probably compiled with the reentrant option enabled.
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
84 management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
87 Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
89 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and yacc.
90 Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
91 using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
93 For the automatic processing of the test suite scripts, you also need
94 libperl development header support (libperl-dev package on Debian).
96 For requirements in case you intend to build the documentation yourself,
97 see "DOCUMENTATION" section.
101 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
108 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
109 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
110 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
111 Windows source code under Unix.
113 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
115 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
116 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
117 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
119 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
121 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
122 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
123 run "make depend && make".
127 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
128 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
131 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
132 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
135 If you want to read the documentation supplied with the Wine source,
136 see the "DOCUMENTATION" section.
138 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
139 ~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
140 man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
141 The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
142 which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
144 Don't forget to add vital registry entries by applying winedefault.reg
145 with programs/regapi/. See documentation/ directory for details.
147 See http://www.winehq.com/support/ for further configuration hints.
149 In case of library loading errors
150 (e.g. "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), make sure
151 to add the library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root.
153 In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
154 Wine to run successfully, you may run "./tools/winecheck | less".
155 You'll get a percentage score indicating "Wine configuration correctness".
156 As this program is alpha, it doesn't run a truly thorough test yet, though,
157 so it should be taken as a first verification step only.
159 See wine.conf man page on how to switch to text mode only support if desired.
163 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
166 For example: to run Solitaire:
168 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
171 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
173 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
175 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
176 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
178 Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. Provided you set up
179 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
180 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem.
181 For more information on how to do this, please read the file
182 documentation/debugging.sgml.
184 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
185 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
186 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
187 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
188 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
189 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
190 can at least partially be fixed by using
191 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
195 Some documentation (various Wine Guides etc.) can be found in the
196 documentation/ directory (apart from also being available on WineHQ).
198 If you want to process the SGML files in there, then you can run "make doc"
199 in the documentation/ directory.
200 Doing so requires the sgml tools package (for db2html, db2ps, db2pdf) named:
201 Debian: docbook-utils
202 Mandrake: sgml-tools-A.B.C-DDmdk
203 SuSE: docbktls-A.BB.C-DD
205 8. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
207 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
208 http://www.winehq.com/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
209 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
211 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ
213 Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
214 on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
216 Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.com/.
217 Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
218 problem is already found before posting a bug report. You can
219 also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
220 Please read the file documentation/bugs.sgml to see what
221 information is required.
223 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.openprojects.net.
225 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
226 Go to http://www.winehq.com/development/ for more information.
229 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
230 http://www.winehq.com/development/#ml for more information.
232 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
233 format) to wine-patches@winehq.com list for inclusion in the next