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.
14 To compile the emulator, you must have one of:
16 Linux version 0.99.13 or above
18 FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 1.1 or later
19 OpenBSD/i386 2.1 or later
20 Solaris x86 2.5 or later
22 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
23 it are probably available on the ftp site where you got Wine. They can
24 also be found on ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites.
26 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.0 is required. You will probably need flex too.
28 To build Wine, first do a "./configure" and then a "make depend; make".
29 This will build the library "libwine.a" and the program "wine".
31 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
32 The library "libwine.a" can be used to compile and link Windows source
33 code under Unix. If you have an ELF compiler, you can use
34 "./configure --enable-dll" to build a shared library instead.
36 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
37 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
38 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
40 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
42 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
43 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
44 run "make depend; make".
49 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
50 will install the wine executable and the man page.
52 Wine requires you to have a file /usr/local/etc/wine.conf (you can
53 supply a different name when configuring wine) or a file called .winerc
54 in your home directory.
56 The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file
57 wine.ini contains a config file example.
62 When invoking Wine, you must specify the entire path to the executable,
65 For example: to run Windows' solitaire:
67 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
70 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a dosfilename)
72 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a unixfilename)
74 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
75 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
77 Have a nice game of solitaire, but be careful. Emulation isn't perfect.
78 So, occasionally it may crash.
80 UPDATE: Windows 95 components are known to cause more crashes compared
81 to the equivalent Windows 3.1 libraries.
84 5. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
86 Usenet: The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
87 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. The Wine FAQ is posted there every
90 WWW: Please browse old messages on http://www.dejanews.com to check whether
91 your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report to the
94 A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
95 http://www.winehq.com. Untested patches against the current
96 release are available at http://www.winehq.com/patches.
98 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
99 Go to http://www.winehq.com/cvs.html for more information.
101 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://pw1.netcom.com/~dagar/wine.html.
104 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
105 format preferred) to julliard@lrc.epfl.ch for inclusion in the next