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 that implements Windows API calls using
7 their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also be used for
8 porting Win32 code into native Unix executables.
10 Wine is free software, and its license (contained in the file LICENSE)
11 is BSD style. Basically, you can do anything with it except claim
16 Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
17 Installer to build and install wine. From the top-level Wine
18 directory (which contains this file), run:
22 Run programs as "wine [options] program". For more information and
23 problem resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine manpage,
24 and the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source.
28 To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
30 Linux version 2.0.36 or above
31 FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later
32 Solaris x86 2.5 or later
34 Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
35 (specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
36 threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
37 consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
39 Similarly if you are on FreeBSD you may want to apply an LDT sharing
40 patch too (unless you are tracking -current where it finally has
41 been committed just recently), and there also is a small sigtrap
42 fix thats needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that its using
43 ptrace() by default it may no longer make a difference but it still
44 doesn't hurt...) And if you're running a system from the -stable
45 branch older than Nov 15 1999, like a 3.3-RELEASE, then you also
46 need to apply a signal handling change that was MFC'd at that date.
47 More information including patches for the -stable branch is in
49 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/
51 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
52 it are available at ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites in the directory
53 /contrib/libraries. If you are using RedHat, libXpm is distributed as the
54 xpm and xpm-devel packages. Debian distributes libXpm as xpm4.7, xpm4g,
55 and xpm4g-dev 3.4j. SuSE calls these packages xpm and xpm-devel.
57 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required. You also need flex version 2.5
58 or later and yacc. Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
59 using RedHat, install the flex and bison packages.
63 To build Wine, run the following commands:
69 This will build the library "libwine.a" and the program "wine".
70 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
71 The library "libwine.a" can be used to compile and link Windows source
74 If you do not intend to compile Windows source code, use
75 "./configure --disable-lib" to skip building the library and reduce disk
76 space requirements. If you have an ELF compiler (which you probably do),
77 you can use "./configure --enable-dll" to build a shared library instead.
78 To see other configuration options, do ./configure --help.
80 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
81 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
82 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
84 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
86 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
87 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
88 run "make depend && make".
93 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
94 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
97 Wine requires a configuration file named wine.conf. Its default location is
98 /usr/local/etc, but you can supply a different name when configuring wine by
99 using the --prefix or --sysconfdir options to ./configure. You can also override
100 the global configuration file with a .winerc file in your home directory.
102 The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file
103 wine.ini contains an example configuration file which has to be adapted
104 and copied to one of the two locations mentioned above.
106 See http://www.winehq.com/config.html for further configuration hints.
111 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
114 For example: to run Solitaire:
116 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
119 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
121 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
123 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
124 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
126 Wine is not yet complete, so some programs may crash. Provided you set up
127 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
128 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem. For more
129 information on how to do this, please read the file documentation/debugging.
130 If you post a bug report, please read the file documentation/bugreports to
131 see what information is required.
134 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
136 DOCU: grep -i "SearchString" `find documentation/`|more
138 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/faq.html.
140 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
141 http://www.winehq.com/. Untested patches against the current release
142 are available on the wine-patches mailing list; see
143 http://www.winehq.com/dev.html#ml for more information.
145 HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
146 http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
148 Usenet: Please browse old messages on http://www.dejanews.com/ to check whether
149 your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report to the
152 The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
153 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
154 documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
157 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on IRCnet.
159 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
160 Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.html for more information.
162 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
163 format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com for inclusion in the next