API calls using their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also
be used for porting Win32 code into native Unix executables.
-Wine is free software, and its license (contained in the file LICENSE)
-is BSD style. Basically, you can do anything with it except claim
-that you wrote it.
+Wine is free software, released under the GNU LGPL; see the file
+LICENSE for the details.
+
2. QUICK START
Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
-Installer to build and install Wine. From the top-level Wine
-directory (which contains this file), run:
+Installer to build and install Wine. From the top-level directory
+of the Wine source (which contains this file), run:
./tools/wineinstall
-Run programs as "wine [options] program". For more information and
-problem resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page,
-the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source, and
-especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.com.
+Run programs as "wine program". For more information and problem
+resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page, and
+especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.org.
+
3. REQUIREMENTS
To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
- Linux version 2.0.36 or above
- FreeBSD 4.x or FreeBSD 5-CURRENT
- Solaris x86 2.5 or later
- NetBSD-current
+ Linux version 2.0.36 or above
+ FreeBSD 6.3 or later
+ Solaris x86 9 or later
+ NetBSD-current
+ Mac OS X 10.4 or later
+
+As Wine requires kernel-level thread support to run, only the operating
+systems mentioned above are supported. Other operating systems which
+support kernel threads may be supported in the future.
Linux info:
- Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
- (specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
- threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
- consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
- Also, some bugs were fixed and additional features were added
- late in the Linux 2.0.x series, so if you have a very old Linux kernel,
- you may want to upgrade to at least the latest 2.0.x release.
+ While Linux 2.2.x should still work and Linux 2.0.x may still work
+ (older 2.0.x versions had thread-related crashes),
+ it's best to have a current kernel such as 2.4.x or 2.6.x.
FreeBSD info:
- Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
- turned on in your kernel.
- More information including patches for the 4-STABLE branch is in the
- ports tree:
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/
+ Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD
+ 6.3 or 7.0, and FreeBSD 6.3 has additional patches available. See
+ <http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine> for more information.
Solaris info:
You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
(gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
- will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
+ will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
NetBSD info:
Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
turned on in your kernel.
-File systems info :
- Wine should run on most file systems. However, Wine will fail to start
- if umsdos is used for the /tmp directory. A few compatibility problems have
- also been reported using files accessed through Samba.
-
-Wine requires kernel-level threads to run. Currently, only Linux
-version 2.0 or later, FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later,
-Solaris x86 version 2.5 or later, and NetBSD-current are supported.
-Other operating systems which support kernel threads may be supported
-in the future.
-
-You need to have the X11 development include files installed
-(called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
-To use Wine's support for multi-threaded applications, your X libraries
-must be reentrant, which is probably the default by now.
-If you have libc6 (glibc2), or you compiled the X libraries yourself,
-they were probably compiled with the reentrant option enabled.
-
-You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
-it are available at ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites in the directory
-/contrib/libraries. If you are using RedHat, libXpm is distributed as the
-xpm and xpm-devel packages. Debian distributes libXpm as xpm4.7, xpm4g,
-and xpm4g-dev. SuSE calls these packages xpm and xpm-devel.
-
-On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
-Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
-are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
-management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
-is unknown.
-
-You also need flex version 2.5 or later and yacc.
-Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
-using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
-
-In case you want to build the documentation yourself, you'll also
-need the DocBook tools (db2html, db2ps, db2pdf).
+Mac OS X info:
+ You need Xcode 2.4 or later to build properly on x86.
+
+
+Supported file systems:
+ Wine should run on most file systems. A few compatibility problems
+ have also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also,
+ NTFS does not provide all the file system features needed by some
+ applications. Using a native Linux file system such as ext3 is
+ recommended.
+
+Basic requirements:
+ You need to have the X11 development include files installed
+ (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in Red Hat).
+
+ Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
+
+ You also need flex version 2.5 or later and bison.
+
+Optional support libraries:
+ Configure will display notices when optional libraries are not found
+ on your system. See http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for
+ hints about the packages you should install.
+
+ On 64-bit platforms you have to make sure to install the 32-bit
+ versions of these libraries; see http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
+ for details.
4. COMPILATION
make depend
make
-This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
+This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
Windows source code under Unix.
top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
- gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
+ bunzip2 -c patch-file | patch -p1
where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
-Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
+wine-1.0.x.diff.bz2). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
run "make depend && make".
first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
before installing.
-If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the
-documentation directory.
-
-Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
-~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
-man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
-The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
-which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
+Once installed, you can run the "winecfg" configuration tool. See the
+Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for configuration hints.
-See http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml for further configuration hints.
-
-In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
-Wine to run successfully, run "./tools/winecheck | less". You'll get
-a percentage score indicating "Wine configuration correctness".
6. RUNNING PROGRAMS
When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
or a filename only.
-For example: to run Solitaire:
-
- wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
- wine sol.exe
+For example: to run Notepad:
- wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a DOS filename)
+ wine notepad (using the search Path as specified in
+ wine notepad.exe the config file to locate the file)
- wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a Unix filename)
+ wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
-Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
- a full name is supplied on the commandline.
+ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
-Wine is not yet complete, so some programs may crash. Provided you set up
-winedbg correctly according to documentation/debugger.sgml, you will be dropped
-into a debugger so that you can investigate and fix the problem. For more
-information on how to do this, please read the file documentation/debugging.
-If you post a bug report, please read the file documentation/bugreports to
-see what information is required.
+ wine notepad.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
+ (calling program with parameters)
-You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
-to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
-of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
-if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
-directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
-as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
-can be fixed with http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
+Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. In that crash
+you will be dropped into the debugger so that you can investigate and
+fix the problem. For more information on how to do this, please check
+the debugging section of the Wine Developer's Guide.
7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
- http://www.winehq.com/ : various user guides, application database,
+ http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
-FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ
+FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
-HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
- http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
+Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
+ on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
-Usenet: The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
- comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
- documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
- in a bug report.
+Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
+ Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
+ problem is already found before posting a bug report. You can
+ also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
- Please browse old messages on http://groups.google.com/ to check
- whether your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report
- to the newsgroup.
+IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
-IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.openprojects.net.
-
-CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
- Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml for more information.
+Git: The current Wine development tree is available through Git.
+ Go to http://www.winehq.org/site/git for more information.
Mailing lists:
- There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
- http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
+ There are several mailing lists for Wine users and developers;
+ see http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
+
+Wiki: The Wine Wiki is located at http://wiki.winehq.org
-If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
-format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com or to the
-wine-patches@winehq.com mailing list for inclusion in the next
+If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
+format) to wine-patches@winehq.org list for inclusion in the next
release.
--
Alexandre Julliard
-julliard@winehq.com
+julliard@winehq.org