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 before 5.3, but will
48 generally not work on these systems due to issues with threading and
49 mmap(). In fact, even on FreeBSD 5.3 you will need the kernel patch
50 posted at <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73092>.
52 More information can be found in the FreeBSD ports tree at
53 <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/>.
56 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
57 (gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
58 will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
59 symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
62 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
63 turned on in your kernel.
67 Supported file systems:
68 Wine should run on most file systems. However, Wine will fail to start
69 if umsdos is used for the /tmp directory. A few compatibility problems have
70 also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also, as NTFS
71 can only be used safely with readonly access for now, we recommend against
72 using NTFS, as Windows programs need write access almost everywhere.
73 In case of NTFS files, copy over to a writable location.
76 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
77 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
79 Build tool requirements:
80 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
81 Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
82 are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
83 management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
86 Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
88 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and bison. If you are
89 using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
91 Optional support libraries:
92 If you want CUPS printing support, please install both cups and cups-devel
95 For the automatic processing of the test suite scripts, you also need
96 libperl development header support (libperl-dev package on Debian).
98 For requirements in case you intend to build the documentation yourself,
99 see "DOCUMENTATION" section.
103 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
110 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
111 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
112 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
113 Windows source code under Unix.
115 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
117 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
118 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
119 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
121 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
123 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
124 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
125 run "make depend && make".
129 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
130 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
133 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
134 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
137 If you want to read the documentation supplied with the Wine source,
138 see the "DOCUMENTATION" section.
140 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
141 ~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
142 man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
143 The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
144 which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
146 See the Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for further
149 In case of library loading errors
150 (e.g. "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), make sure
151 to add the library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root.
155 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
158 For example: to run Solitaire:
160 wine sol (using the search Path as specified in
161 wine sol.exe the config file to locate the file)
163 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
165 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
167 wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
168 (calling program with parameters)
170 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
171 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
173 Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. Provided you set up
174 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
175 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem.
176 For more information on how to do this, please read the file
177 documentation/debugging.sgml.
179 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
180 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
181 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
182 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
183 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
184 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
185 can at least partially be fixed by using
186 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
190 Some documentation (various Wine Guides etc.) can be found in the
191 documentation/ directory (apart from also being available on WineHQ).
193 If you want to process the SGML files in there, then you can run "make doc"
194 in the documentation/ directory.
195 Doing so requires the sgml tools package (for db2html, db2ps, db2pdf) named:
196 Debian: docbook-utils
197 Mandrake: sgml-tools-A.B.C-DDmdk
198 SuSE: docbktls-A.BB.C-DD
200 8. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
202 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
203 http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
204 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
206 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
208 Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
209 on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
211 Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
212 Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
213 problem is already found before posting a bug report. You can
214 also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
215 Please read the file documentation/bugs.sgml to see what
216 information is required.
218 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
220 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
221 Go to http://www.winehq.org/cvs for more information.
224 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
225 http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
227 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
228 format) to wine-patches@winehq.org list for inclusion in the next