4 A major goal of Wine is to allow users to run Windows programs without
5 having to install Windows on their machine. Wine implements the
6 functionality of the main DLL's usually provided with Windows.
7 Therefore, once Wine is finished, you will not need to have windows
10 Wine has already made enough progress that it may be possible to run
11 your target applications without Windows installed. If you want to try
12 it, follow these steps:
14 1. Create empty C:\windows and C:\windows\system directories.
15 Do not point Wine to a Windows directory full of old installations
16 and a messy registry. (Wine creates a special registry in your home
17 directory, in $HOME/.wine/*.reg. Perhaps you have to remove these
20 2. Point [Drive C] in wine.conf or .winerc to where you want C: to be.
21 Refer to the Wine man page for more information. Remember to use
24 3. Use tools/wineinstall to compile Wine and install the default
25 registry. Or if you prefer to do it yourself, compile programs/regapi,
26 and run: programs/regapi/regapi setValue < winedefault.reg
28 4. Run and/or install your applications.
31 Because Wine is not yet complete, some programs will work better
32 with native Windows DLL's than with Wine's replacements. Wine has been
33 designed to make this possible. Here are some tips by Juergen Schmied
34 (and others) on how to proceed. This assumes that your C:\windows
35 directory in the configuration file does not point to a native Windows
36 installation but is in a separate Unix file system. (For instance,
37 C:\windows is really /home/ego/wine/drives/c).
39 - Run the application with -debugmsg +module,+file to find out
40 which files are needed. Copy the required DLL's one by one to the
41 C:\windows\system directory. Do not copy KERNEL/KERNEL32, GDI/GDI32,
42 or USER/USER32. These implement the core functionality of the
43 Windows API, and the Wine internal versions must be used.
45 - Edit the [DllOverrides] section of wine.conf or .winerc to specify
46 'native' before 'builtin' for the Windows DLL's you want to use.
47 For more information about this, see the Wine manpage.
49 - Note that some network DLL's are not needed even though Wine is
50 looking for them. The Windows MPR.DLL currently does not work; you
51 must use the internal implementation.
53 - Copy SHELL/SHELL32 and COMDLG/COMDLG32 COMMCTRL/COMCTL32
54 only as pairs to your Wine directory (these DLL's are
55 "clean" to use). Make sure you have these specified in the
56 [DllPairs] section of wine.conf or .winerc.
58 - Be consistent: Use only DLL's from the same Windows version
61 - Put regedit.exe in the C:\windows directory (office95 imports
62 a *.reg file when it runs with a empty registry, don't know