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- 1. INTRODUCTION
- Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
- (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, X11 or Mac equivalents. The library may also
- 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
- From the top-level directory of the Wine source (which contains this file),
- run:
- ./configure
- make
- Then either install Wine:
- make install
- Or run Wine directly from the build directory:
- ./wine notepad
- 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 https://www.winehq.org.
- 3. REQUIREMENTS
- To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
- Linux version 2.0.36 or later
- FreeBSD 8.0 or later
- Solaris x86 9 or later
- NetBSD-current
- Mac OS X 10.8 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.
- FreeBSD info:
- Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD 8.0.
- See https://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
- 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.
- Mac OS X info:
- You need Xcode/Xcode Command Line Tools or Apple cctools. The
- minimum requirements for compiling Wine are clang 3.8 with the
- MacOSX10.10.sdk and mingw-w64 v8. The MacOSX10.14.sdk and later can
- only build wine64.
- 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 Unix file system is recommended.
- Basic requirements:
- You need to have the X11 development include files installed
- (called xorg-dev in Debian and libX11-devel in Red Hat).
- Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
- You also need flex version 2.5.33 or later and bison.
- Optional support libraries:
- Configure will display notices when optional libraries are not found
- on your system. See https://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.
- 4. COMPILATION
- To build Wine, do:
- ./configure
- make
- 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.
- To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
- For more information, see https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine
- 5. SETUP
- Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
- 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.
- Once installed, you can run the "winecfg" configuration tool. See the
- Support area at https://www.winehq.org/ for configuration hints.
- 6. RUNNING PROGRAMS
- When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
- or a filename only.
- For example: to run Notepad:
- wine notepad (using the search Path as specified in
- wine notepad.exe the registry to locate the file)
- wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
- wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
- wine notepad.exe readme.txt (calling program with parameters)
- 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.
- 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
- WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
- https://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
- bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
- FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at https://www.winehq.org/FAQ
- Wiki: The Wine Wiki is located at https://wiki.winehq.org
- Mailing lists:
- There are several mailing lists for Wine users and developers;
- see https://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
- Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at https://bugs.winehq.org
- Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
- problem is already known or fixed before posting a bug report.
- IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
- Git: The current Wine development tree is available through Git.
- Go to https://www.winehq.org/git for more information.
- If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (preferably
- using git-format-patch) to the wine-devel@winehq.org list for
- inclusion in the next release.
- --
- Alexandre Julliard
- julliard@winehq.org
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