1. INTRODUCTION
Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
-(including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix. It
-consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
+(including DOS, Windows 3.x, Win32, and Win64 executables) on Unix.
+It consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
Windows binary, and a library (called Winelib) that implements Windows
API calls using their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also
-be used for porting Win32 code into native Unix executables.
+be used for porting Windows code into native Unix executables.
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
./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 of the Wine source
-(see "DOCUMENTATION"), and especially the wealth of information
-found at http://www.winehq.org.
+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 or later
- Solaris x86 2.5 or later
+ 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.
+systems mentioned above are supported. Other operating systems which
+support kernel threads may be supported in the future.
Linux info:
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.
+ 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 is in the ports
- tree: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/
+ 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
Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
turned on in your kernel.
+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. 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. Also, as NTFS
- can only be used safely with readonly access for now, we recommend against
- using NTFS, as Windows programs need write access almost everywhere.
- In case of NTFS files, copy over to a writable location.
+ 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 RedHat).
-
-Build tool requirements:
- 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.
+ (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 yacc.
- Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
- using RedHat or Debian, install the flex and bison packages.
+ You also need flex version 2.5.33 or later and bison.
Optional support libraries:
- If you want CUPS printing support, please install both cups and cups-devel
- packages.
+ 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.
- For the automatic processing of the test suite scripts, you also need
- libperl development header support (libperl-dev package on Debian).
-
-For requirements in case you intend to build the documentation yourself,
-see "DOCUMENTATION" section.
+ On 64-bit platforms, if compiling Wine as 32-bit (default), you have
+ to make sure to install the 32-bit versions of these libraries; see
+ http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit for details. If you want a true
+ 64-bit Wine (or a mixed 32-bit and 64-bit Wine setup), see
+ http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64 for details.
4. COMPILATION
to build Wine:
./configure
-make depend
make
This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
-To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
-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
-
-where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
-Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
-run "make depend && make".
-
5. SETUP
Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
-will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
-needed files.
+will install the wine executable and libraries, the Wine man page, and
+other needed files.
Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
before installing.
-If you want to read the documentation supplied with the Wine source,
-see the "DOCUMENTATION" section.
-
-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.
-
-Don't forget to add vital registry entries by applying winedefault.reg
-with programs/regedit/. See documentation/ directory for details.
-
-See the Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for further
-configuration hints.
+Once installed, you can run the "winecfg" configuration tool. See the
+Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for configuration hints.
-In case of library loading errors
-(e.g. "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), make sure
-to add the library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root.
-
-In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
-Wine to run successfully, you may run "./tools/winecheck | less".
-You'll get a percentage score indicating "Wine configuration correctness".
-As this program is alpha, it doesn't run a truly thorough test yet, though,
-so it should be taken as a first verification step only.
-
-See wine.conf man page on how to switch to text mode only support if desired.
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 search Path as specified in
- wine sol.exe the config file to locate the file)
-
- wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
-
- wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
+For example: to run Notepad:
- wine -- sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
- (calling program with parameters)
+ wine notepad (using the search Path as specified in
+ wine notepad.exe the registry to locate the file)
-Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
- a full name is supplied on the commandline.
+ wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
-Wine is not yet complete, so several 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.sgml.
+ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
-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 at least partially be fixed by using
-http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
+ wine notepad.exe readme.txt (calling program with parameters)
-7. DOCUMENTATION
+Wine is not perfect, so some programs may crash. If that happens you
+will get a crash log that you should attach to your report when filing
+a bug.
-Some documentation (various Wine Guides etc.) can be found in the
-documentation/ directory (apart from also being available on WineHQ).
-If you want to process the SGML files in there, then you can run "make doc"
-in the documentation/ directory.
-Doing so requires the sgml tools package (for db2html, db2ps, db2pdf) named:
-Debian: docbook-utils
-Mandrake: sgml-tools-A.B.C-DDmdk
-SuSE: docbktls-A.BB.C-DD
-
-8. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
+7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
-Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
- on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
+Wiki: The Wine Wiki is located at http://wiki.winehq.org
+
+Mailing lists:
+ There are several mailing lists for Wine users and developers;
+ see http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
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 read the file documentation/bugs.sgml to see what
- information is required.
+ problem is already known or fixed before posting a bug report.
IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
-CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
- Go to http://www.winehq.org/cvs for more information.
-
-Mailing lists:
- There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
- http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
+Git: The current Wine development tree is available through Git.
+ Go to http://www.winehq.org/git for more information.
-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.
+If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (preferably
+using git-format-patch) to the wine-patches@winehq.org list for
+inclusion in the next release.
--
Alexandre Julliard