Commit 7c0b4c3d authored by James Juran's avatar James Juran Committed by Alexandre Julliard

Updated documentation/no-windows.

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Running Wine without Windows
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Wine without Windows
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Sometimes you can bring applications to run by using some of the
native Windows DLL's, together with Wine. Here are some tips by
Juergen Schmied on how to proceed. This assumes that your C:\windows
A major goal of Wine is to allow users to run Windows programs without
having to install Windows on their machine. Wine implements the
functionality of the main DLL's usually provided with Windows.
Therefore, once Wine is finished, you will not need to have windows
installed to use Wine.
Wine has already made enough progress that it may be possible to run
your target applications without Windows installed. If you want to try
it, follow these steps:
1. Create empty C:\windows and C:\windows\system directories.
Do not point Wine to a Windows directory full of old installations
and a messy registry. (Wine creates a special registry in your home
directory, in $HOME/.wine/*.reg. Perhaps you have to remove these
files).
2. Point [Drive C] in wine.conf or .winerc to where you want C: to be.
Refer to the Wine man page for more information. Remember to use
filesystem=win95 !
3. Use tools/wineinstall to compile Wine and install the default
registry. Or if you prefer to do it yourself, compile programs/regapi,
and run: programs/regapi/regapi setValue < winedefault.reg
4. Run and/or install your applications.
Because Wine is not yet complete, some programs will work better
with native Windows DLL's than with Wine's replacements. Wine has been
designed to make this possible. Here are some tips by Juergen Schmied
(and others) on how to proceed. This assumes that your C:\windows
directory in the configuration file does not point to a native Windows
installation but is in a separate Unix file system. (For instance,
C:\windows is really /home/ego/wine/drives/c).
- Create empty C:\windows and C:\windows\system directories.
Do not point Wine to a Windows directory full of old installations
and a messy registry. (Wine creates a special registry in your home
directory, in $HOME/.wine/*.reg. Perhaps you have to remove these
files).
- Point [Drive C] in wine.conf or .winerc to where you want C: to be.
Refer to the README file or man page. Remember to use filesystem=win95 !
- Use tools/wineinstall to compile Wine and install the default
registry. Or if you prefer to do it yourself, compile programs/regapi,
and run: programs/regapi/regapi setValue < winedefault.reg
- Run the application with -debugmsg +module,+file to find out
which files are needed. Copy the required DLL's one by one to the
C:\windows\system directory.
C:\windows\system directory. Do not copy KERNEL/KERNEL32, GDI/GDI32,
or USER/USER32. These implement the core functionality of the
Windows API, and the Wine internal versions must be used.
- Edit the [DllOverrides] section of wine.conf or .winerc to specify
'native' before 'builtin' for the Windows DLL's you want to use.
For more information about this, see the Wine manpage.
- Note that some network DLL's are not needed even though Wine is
looking for them. Do not copy the MPR.DLL into the directory,
use the internal implementation.
looking for them. The Windows MPR.DLL currently does not work; you
must use the internal implementation.
- Copy SHELL/SHELL32 and COMDLG/COMDLG32 COMMCTRL/COMCTL32
only as pairs to your Wine directory (these DLL's are
"clean" to use)
- Be consistent: Use only DLLS from the same Windows version
"clean" to use). Make sure you have these specified in the
[DllPairs] section of wine.conf or .winerc.
- Be consistent: Use only DLL's from the same Windows version
together.
- Put regedit.exe in the C:\windows directory (office95 imports
a *.reg file when it runs with a empty registry, don't know
about office97).
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