3 Wine is a program that allows running MS-Windows programs under X11.
4 It consists of a program loader, that loads and executes an
5 MS-Windows binary, and of an emulation library that translates Windows
6 API calls to their Unix/X11 equivalent.
8 Wine is free software. See the file LICENSE for the details.
9 Basically, you can do anything with it, except claim that you wrote it.
16 Linux version 0.99.13 or above
18 FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 1.1
19 OpenBSD/i386 2.1 or later
21 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
22 it are probably available on the ftp site where you got Wine. They can
23 also be found on ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites.
25 To build Wine, first do a "./configure" and then a "make depend; make".
26 The executable "wine" will be built. "wine" will load and run 16-bit
29 To build Winelib, do a "./configure --with-library", and then a "make
30 depend; make". The library "winelib.a" will be built, allowing to
31 compile Windows source code under Unix. If you have an ELF compiler,
32 you can use "./configure --with-dll" instead to build a shared library.
34 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
35 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
36 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
38 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
40 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
41 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
42 run "make depend; make".
47 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
48 will install the wine executable and the man page.
50 Wine requires you to have a file /usr/local/etc/wine.conf (you can
51 supply a different name when configuring wine) or a file called .winerc
52 in your home directory.
54 The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file
55 wine.ini contains a config file example.
60 When invoking Wine, you must specify the entire path to the executable,
63 For example: to run Windows' solitaire:
65 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
68 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a dosfilename)
70 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a unixfilename)
72 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
73 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
75 Have a nice game of solitaire, but be careful. Emulation isn't perfect.
76 So, occasionally it may crash.
78 UPDATE: Windows 95 components are known to cause more crashes compared
79 to the equivalent Windows 3.1 libraries.
82 5. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
84 The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
85 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. The Wine FAQ is posted there every
86 month. Also, you may want to browse old messages on www.dejanews.com
87 to check whether your problem is already fixed.
89 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
90 format preferred) to julliard@lrc.epfl.ch for inclusion in the next