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wine-winehq
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Jun 29, 2001
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Andreas Mohr
Committed by
Alexandre Julliard
Jun 29, 2001
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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
Windows binary, and a library
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.
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.
Wine is free software, and its license (contained in the file LICENSE)
is BSD style. Basically, you can do anything with it except claim
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./tools/wineinstall
Run programs as "wine [options] program". For more information and
problem resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine manpage,
and the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source.
problem resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page,
the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source, and
especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.com.
3. REQUIREMENTS
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On FreeBSD, you may want to apply an LDT sharing patch too
(unless you are tracking -current where it finally has
been committed just recently), and there also is a small sigtrap
fix that
s needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that it
s using
fix that
's needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that it'
s using
ptrace() by default it may no longer make a difference but it still
doesn't hurt...) And if you're running a system from the -stable
branch older than Nov 15 1999, like a 3.3-RELEASE, then you also
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If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the
documentation directory.
Wine requires a configuration file named wine.conf. Its default
location is /usr/local/etc, but you can supply a different name when
configuring wine by using the --prefix or --sysconfdir options to
./configure. You can also override the global configuration file with
a file named "config" in your ~/.wine directory.
The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file
documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
which has to be adapted and copied to one of the two locations
Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the man
page. The file documentation/samples/config contains an example
configuration file which has to be adapted and copied to the location
mentioned above.
See http://www.winehq.com/
config.
html for further configuration hints.
See http://www.winehq.com/
support.s
html for further configuration hints.
In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
Wine to run successfully, run "./tools/winecheck | less". You'll get
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7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
DOCU: grep -i "SearchString" `find documentation/`|more
WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
http://www.winehq.com/ : various user guides, application database,
bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ
WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
http://www.winehq.com/, especially various user guides.
Untested patches against the current release
are available on the wine-patches mailing list; see
http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
HOWTO: The Wine HOWTO is available at
http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
Usenet: Please browse old messages on http://www.dejanews.com/ to check whether
your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report to the
newsgroup.
The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
Usenet: The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
in a bug report.
IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on IRCnet.
Please browse old messages on http://groups.google.com/ to check
whether your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report
to the newsgroup.
IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.openprojects.net.
CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml for more information.
Mailing lists:
There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com or to the
wine-patches@winehq.com mailing list for inclusion in the next
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