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, 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 man page,
24 the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source, and
25 especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.com.
29 To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
31 Linux version 2.0.36 or above
32 FreeBSD 4.x or FreeBSD 5-CURRENT
33 Solaris x86 2.5 or later
36 Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
37 (specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
38 threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
39 consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
40 Also, some bugs were fixed and additional features were added
41 late in the Linux 2.0.x series, so if you have a very old Linux kernel,
42 you may want to upgrade to at least the latest 2.0.x release.
45 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
46 turned on in your kernel.
47 More information including patches for the 4-STABLE branch is in the
49 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/
52 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
55 Wine requires kernel-level threads to run. Currently, only Linux
56 version 2.0 or later, FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later,
57 and Solaris x86 version 2.5 or later are supported.
58 Other operating systems which support kernel threads may be supported
61 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
62 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
63 To use Wine's support for multi-threaded applications, your X libraries
64 must be reentrant, which is probably the default by now.
65 If you have libc6 (glibc2), or you compiled the X libraries yourself,
66 they were probably compiled with the reentrant option enabled.
68 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
69 it are available at ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites in the directory
70 /contrib/libraries. If you are using RedHat, libXpm is distributed as the
71 xpm and xpm-devel packages. Debian distributes libXpm as xpm4.7, xpm4g,
72 and xpm4g-dev. SuSE calls these packages xpm and xpm-devel.
74 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
75 Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
76 are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
77 management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
80 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and yacc.
81 Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
82 using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
84 In case you want to build the documentation yourself, you'll also
85 need the DocBook tools (db2html, db2ps, db2pdf).
89 In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
96 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
97 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
98 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
99 Windows source code under Unix.
101 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
103 To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
104 top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
105 file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
107 gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
109 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
110 Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
111 run "make depend && make".
116 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
117 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
120 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
121 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
124 If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the
125 documentation directory.
127 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
128 ~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
129 man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
130 The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
131 which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
133 See http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml for further configuration hints.
135 In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
136 Wine to run successfully, run "./tools/winecheck | less". You'll get
137 a percentage score indicating "Wine configuration correctness".
141 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
144 For example: to run Solitaire:
146 wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
149 wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
151 wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
153 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
154 a full name is supplied on the commandline.
156 Wine is not yet complete, so some programs may crash. Provided you set up
157 winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
158 into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem. For more
159 information on how to do this, please read the file documentation/debugging.
160 If you post a bug report, please read the file documentation/bugreports to
161 see what information is required.
163 You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
164 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
165 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
166 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
167 directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
168 as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
169 can be fixed with http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
172 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
174 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
175 http://www.winehq.com/ : various user guides, application database,
176 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
178 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ
180 HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
181 http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
183 Usenet: The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
184 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
185 documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
188 Please browse old messages on http://groups.google.com/ to check
189 whether your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report
192 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.openprojects.net.
194 CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
195 Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml for more information.
198 There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
199 http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
201 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
202 format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com or to the
203 wine-patches@winehq.com mailing list for inclusion in the next