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1. INTRODUCTION
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Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
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(including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix. It
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consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
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Windows binary, and a library (called Winelib) that implements Windows
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API calls using their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also
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be used for porting Win32 code into native Unix executables.
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Wine is free software, released under the GNU LGPL; see the file
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LICENSE for the details.
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2. QUICK START
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Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
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Installer to build and install Wine. From the top-level directory
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of the Wine source (which contains this file), run:
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./tools/wineinstall
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Run programs as "wine program". For more information and problem
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resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page, and
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especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.org.
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3. REQUIREMENTS
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To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
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Linux version 2.0.36 or above
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FreeBSD 7.0 or later
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Solaris x86 9 or later
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NetBSD-current
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Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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As Wine requires kernel-level thread support to run, only the operating
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systems mentioned above are supported. Other operating systems which
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support kernel threads may be supported in the future.
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Linux info:
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While Linux 2.2.x should still work and Linux 2.0.x may still work
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(older 2.0.x versions had thread-related crashes),
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it's best to have a current kernel such as 2.4.x or 2.6.x.
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FreeBSD info:
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Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD
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7.0. FreeBSD 6.3 has patches available to allow Wine to run. See
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<http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine> for more information.
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Solaris info:
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You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
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(gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
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will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
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symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
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NetBSD info:
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Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
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turned on in your kernel.
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Mac OS X info:
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You need Xcode 2.4 or later to build properly on x86.
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Supported file systems:
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Wine should run on most file systems. A few compatibility problems
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have also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also,
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NTFS does not provide all the file system features needed by some
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applications. Using a native Linux file system such as ext3 is
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recommended.
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Basic requirements:
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You need to have the X11 development include files installed
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(called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in Red Hat).
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Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
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You also need flex version 2.5 or later and bison.
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Optional support libraries:
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Configure will display notices when optional libraries are not found
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on your system. See http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for
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hints about the packages you should install.
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On 64-bit platforms you have to make sure to install the 32-bit
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versions of these libraries; see http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
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for details.
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4. COMPILATION
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In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
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to build Wine:
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./configure
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make depend
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make
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This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
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The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
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The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
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Windows source code under Unix.
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To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
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To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
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top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
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file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
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bunzip2 -c patch-file | patch -p1
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where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
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wine-1.0.x.diff.bz2). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
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run "make depend && make".
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5. SETUP
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Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
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will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
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needed files.
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Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
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first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
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before installing.
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Once installed, you can run the "winecfg" configuration tool. See the
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Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for configuration hints.
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6. RUNNING PROGRAMS
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When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
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or a filename only.
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For example: to run Notepad:
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wine notepad (using the search Path as specified in
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wine notepad.exe the config file to locate the file)
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wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
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wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
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wine notepad.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
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(calling program with parameters)
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Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. In that crash
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you will be dropped into the debugger so that you can investigate and
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fix the problem. For more information on how to do this, please check
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the debugging section of the Wine Developer's Guide.
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7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
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WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
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http://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
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bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
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FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.org/FAQ
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Usenet: You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
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on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
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Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
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Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
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problem is already found before posting a bug report. You can
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also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
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IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
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GIT: The current Wine development tree is available through GIT.
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Go to http://www.winehq.org/site/git for more information.
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Mailing lists:
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There are several mailing lists for Wine users and developers;
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see http://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
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Wiki: The Wine Wiki is located at http://wiki.winehq.org
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If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
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format) to wine-patches@winehq.org list for inclusion in the next
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release.
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--
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Alexandre Julliard
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julliard@winehq.org
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