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
36 Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
37 (specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
38 threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
39 consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
40 Also, some bugs were fixed and additional features were added
41 late in the Linux 2.0.x series, so if you have a very old Linux kernel,
42 you may want to upgrade to at least the latest 2.0.x release.
45 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
46 turned on in your kernel.
47 More information including patches for the 4-STABLE branch is in the
49 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/
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 Wine should run on most file systems. However, Wine will fail to start
59 if umsdos is used for the /tmp directory. A few compatibility problems have
60 also been reported using files accessed through Samba.
62 Wine requires kernel-level threads to run. Currently, only Linux
63 version 2.0 or later, FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later,
64 and Solaris x86 version 2.5 or later are supported.
65 Other operating systems which support kernel threads may be supported
68 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
69 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
70 To use Wine's support for multi-threaded applications, your X libraries
71 must be reentrant, which is probably the default by now.
72 If you have libc6 (glibc2), or you compiled the X libraries yourself,
73 they were probably compiled with the reentrant option enabled.
75 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
76 it are available at ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites in the directory
77 /contrib/libraries. If you are using RedHat, libXpm is distributed as the
78 xpm and xpm-devel packages. Debian distributes libXpm as xpm4.7, xpm4g,
79 and xpm4g-dev. SuSE calls these packages xpm and xpm-devel.
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 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and yacc.
88 Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
89 using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
91 In case you want to build the documentation yourself, you'll also
92 need the DocBook tools (db2html, db2ps, db2pdf).
96 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
103 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
104 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
105 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
106 Windows source code under Unix.
108 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
110 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
111 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
112 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
114 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
116 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
117 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
118 run "make depend && make".
123 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
124 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
127 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
128 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
131 If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the
132 documentation directory.
134 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
135 ~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
136 man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
137 The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
138 which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
140 See http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml for further configuration hints.
142 In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
143 Wine to run successfully, run "./tools/winecheck | less". You'll get
144 a percentage score indicating "Wine configuration correctness".
148 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
151 For example: to run Solitaire:
153 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
156 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
158 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
160 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
161 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
163 Wine is not yet complete, so some programs may crash. Provided you set up
164 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
165 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem. For more
166 information on how to do this, please read the file documentation/debugging.
167 If you post a bug report, please read the file documentation/bugreports to
168 see what information is required.
170 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
171 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
172 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
173 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
174 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
175 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
176 can be fixed with http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
179 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
181 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
182 http://www.winehq.com/ : various user guides, application database,
183 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
185 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ
187 HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
188 http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
190 Usenet: The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
191 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
192 documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
195 Please browse old messages on http://groups.google.com/ to check
196 whether your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report
199 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.openprojects.net.
201 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
202 Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml for more information.
205 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
206 http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
208 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
209 format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com or to the
210 wine-patches@winehq.com mailing list for inclusion in the next