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 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 See the Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for further
147 In case of library loading errors
148 (e.g. "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), make sure
149 to add the library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root.
153 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
156 For example: to run Solitaire:
158 wine sol (using the search Path as specified in
159 wine sol.exe the config file to locate the file)
161 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
163 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
165 wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
166 (calling program with parameters)
168 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
169 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
171 Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. Provided you set up
172 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
173 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem.
174 For more information on how to do this, please read the file
175 documentation/debugging.sgml.
177 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
178 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
179 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
180 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
181 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
182 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
183 can at least partially be fixed by using
184 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
188 Some documentation (various Wine Guides etc.) can be found in the
189 documentation/ directory (apart from also being available on WineHQ).
191 If you want to process the SGML files in there, then you can run "make doc"
192 in the documentation/ directory.
193 Doing so requires the sgml tools package (for db2html, db2ps, db2pdf) named:
194 Debian: docbook-utils
195 Mandrake: sgml-tools-A.B.C-DDmdk
196 SuSE: docbktls-A.BB.C-DD
198 8. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
200 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
201 http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
202 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
204 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
206 Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
207 on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
209 Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
210 Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
211 problem is already found before posting a bug report. You can
212 also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
213 Please read the file documentation/bugs.sgml to see what
214 information is required.
216 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
218 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
219 Go to http://www.winehq.org/cvs for more information.
222 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
223 http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
225 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
226 format) to wine-patches@winehq.org list for inclusion in the next