Commit 1b81ee33 authored by Austin English's avatar Austin English Committed by Alexandre Julliard

README: A few more updates.

parent 656a0358
......@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.org.
To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
Linux version 2.0.36 or above
FreeBSD 6.2 or later
Solaris x86 2.5 or later
FreeBSD 7.0 or later
Solaris x86 9 or later
NetBSD-current
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
......@@ -44,12 +44,9 @@ Linux info:
it's best to have a current kernel such as 2.4.x or 2.6.x.
FreeBSD info:
Wine should build on FreeBSD 5.x, but versions before FreeBSD 7.0 will
generally not work properly. FreeBSD 6.3 has patches available to allow
Wine to run. See <http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine> for more information.
More information can be found in the FreeBSD ports tree at
<ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/>.
Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD
7.0. FreeBSD 6.3 has patches available to allow Wine to run. See
<http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine> for more information.
Solaris info:
You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
......@@ -112,7 +109,7 @@ file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
bunzip2 -c patch-file | patch -p1
where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
wine-0.9.x.diff.bz2). 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".
......@@ -135,16 +132,16 @@ Support area at http://www.winehq.org/ for configuration hints.
When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
or a filename only.
For example: to run Solitaire:
For example: to run Notepad:
wine sol (using the search Path as specified in
wine sol.exe the config file to locate the file)
wine notepad (using the search Path as specified in
wine notepad.exe the config file to locate the file)
wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/sol.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
wine notepad.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
(calling program with parameters)
Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. In that crash
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