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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, Win32, and Win64 executables) on Unix.
It 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
API calls using their Unix or X11 equivalents.  The library may also
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be used for porting Windows code into native Unix executables.
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Wine is free software, released under the GNU LGPL; see the file
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
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
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 later
  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
support kernel threads may be supported in the future.
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FreeBSD info:
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  Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD 7.0.
  See 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:
  Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
  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
  have also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also,
  NTFS does not provide all the file system features needed by some
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  applications.  Using a native Unix file system is recommended.
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Basic requirements:
  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 2.5.33 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
  on your system. See http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for
  hints about the packages you should install.
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  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.
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4. COMPILATION
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In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
to build Wine:
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./configure
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
Windows source code under Unix.
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To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
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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 and libraries, the Wine man page, and
other needed files.
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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.

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Once installed, you can run the "winecfg" configuration tool. See the
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
    wine notepad.exe         the registry 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 readme.txt          (calling program with parameters)
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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.
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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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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.
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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 known or fixed before posting a bug report.
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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/git for more information.
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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.
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