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
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 Wine should build on FreeBSD 4.x and FreeBSD 5.x, but versions before
48 FreeBSD 5.3 will generally not work properly.
50 More information can be found in the FreeBSD ports tree at
51 <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/>.
54 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
55 (gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
56 will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
57 symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
60 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
61 turned on in your kernel.
65 Supported file systems:
66 Wine should run on most file systems. However, Wine will fail to start
67 if umsdos is used for the /tmp directory. A few compatibility problems have
68 also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also, as NTFS
69 can only be used safely with readonly access for now, we recommend against
70 using NTFS, as Windows programs need write access almost everywhere.
71 In case of NTFS files, copy over to a writable location.
74 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
75 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
77 Build tool requirements:
78 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
79 Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
80 are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
81 management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
84 Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
86 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and bison. If you are
87 using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
89 Optional support libraries:
90 If you want CUPS printing support, please install both cups and cups-devel
93 For requirements in case you intend to build the documentation yourself,
94 see "DOCUMENTATION" section.
98 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
105 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
106 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
107 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
108 Windows source code under Unix.
110 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
112 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
113 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
114 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
116 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
118 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
119 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
120 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 If you want to read the documentation supplied with the Wine source,
133 see the "DOCUMENTATION" section.
135 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
136 ~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
137 man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
138 The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
139 which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
141 See the Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for further
144 In case of library loading errors
145 (e.g. "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), make sure
146 to add the library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root.
150 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
153 For example: to run Solitaire:
155 wine sol (using the search Path as specified in
156 wine sol.exe the config file to locate the file)
158 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
160 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
162 wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
163 (calling program with parameters)
165 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
166 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
168 Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. Provided you set up
169 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
170 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem.
171 For more information on how to do this, please read the file
172 documentation/debugging.sgml.
174 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
175 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
176 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
177 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
178 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
179 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
180 can at least partially be fixed by using
181 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
185 Some documentation (various Wine Guides etc.) can be found in the
186 documentation/ directory (apart from also being available on WineHQ).
188 If you want to process the SGML files in there, then you can run "make doc"
189 in the documentation/ directory.
190 Doing so requires the sgml tools package (for db2html, db2ps, db2pdf) named:
191 Debian: docbook-utils
192 Mandrake: sgml-tools-A.B.C-DDmdk
193 SuSE: docbktls-A.BB.C-DD
195 8. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
197 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
198 http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
199 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
201 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
203 Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
204 on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
206 Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
207 Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
208 problem is already found before posting a bug report. You can
209 also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
210 Please read the file documentation/bugs.sgml to see what
211 information is required.
213 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
215 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
216 Go to http://www.winehq.org/cvs for more information.
219 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
220 http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
222 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
223 format) to wine-patches@winehq.org list for inclusion in the next