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
20 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
21 it are probably available on the ftp site where you got Wine. They can
22 also be found on ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites.
24 To build Wine, first do a "./Configure" and then a "make" (or "gmake"
25 if you're running *BSD). The executable "wine" will be built. "wine"
26 will load and run 16-bit Windows executables.
28 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
29 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
30 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
32 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
34 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
35 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./Configure", and then
41 Wine requires you to have a file /usr/local/etc/wine.conf (you can
42 supply a different name when configuring wine) or a file called .winerc
43 in your home directory.
45 The format of this config file is just like a Windows .ini file.
46 The file wine.ini contains a config file example.
48 Here's an explanation of each section:
52 format: <driveletter> = <rootdirectory>
55 This section is used to specify the root directory of each `dos'drive
56 as Windows' applications require a dos/mswindows based diskdrive &
59 If you mounted your dos-partition as /dos and installed Microsoft Windows
60 in c:\windows than you should specify c=/dos in the drives section.
64 format: windows = <directory>
67 Used to specify an different windows directory.
69 format: system = <directory>
70 default: c:\windows\system
72 Used to specify an different system directory.
74 format: temp = <directory>
77 Used to specify a directory where Windows applications can store temporary
80 format: path = <directories separated by semi-colons>
81 default: c:\windows;c:\windows\system
83 Used to specify the path which will be used to find executables and DLL's.
85 format: symboltablefile = <filename>
88 Used to specify the path and file name of the symbol table used by the
93 format: com[12345678] = <devicename>
96 Used to specify the devices which are used as com1 - com8.
100 format: lpt[12345678] = <devicename>
103 Used to specify the devices which are used as lpt1 - lpt8.
107 format: file = <filename or CON when logging to stdout>
110 used to specify the file which will be used as logfile.
112 format: exclude = <message names separated by semicolons>
115 Used to specify which messages will be excluded from the logfile.
117 format: include = <message names separated by semicolons>
120 Used to specify which messages will be included in the logfile.
125 When invoking Wine, you must specify the entire path to the executable,
128 For example: to run Windows' solitaire:
130 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
133 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a dosfilename)
135 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a unixfilename)
137 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
138 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
140 Have a nice game of solitaire, but be careful. Emulation isn't perfect.
141 So, occasionally it may crash.
144 5. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
146 The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
147 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. The Wine FAQ is posted there every
150 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch to
151 wine-new@amscons.com for inclusion in the next release.
155 julliard@lamisun.epfl.ch