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## 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, X11 or Mac 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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## QUICK START
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From the top-level directory of the Wine source (which contains this file),
run:
./configure
make
Then either install Wine:
Or run Wine directly from the build directory:
Run programs as `wine program`. For more information and problem
resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page, and
especially the wealth of information found at https://www.winehq.org.
## REQUIREMENTS
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To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
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- Linux version 2.6.22 or later
- FreeBSD 12.4 or later
- Solaris x86 9 or later
- NetBSD-current
- Mac OS X 10.8 or later

As Wine requires kernel-level thread support to run, only the operating
systems mentioned above are supported.  Other operating systems which
support kernel threads may be supported in the future.
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**FreeBSD info**:
  See https://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine for more information.
**Solaris info**:
  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
  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.

**NetBSD info**:
  Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
  turned on in your kernel.

**Mac OS X info**:
  You need Xcode/Xcode Command Line Tools or Apple cctools.  The
  minimum requirements for compiling Wine are clang 3.8 with the
  MacOSX10.10.sdk and mingw-w64 v8.  The MacOSX10.14.sdk and later can
  only build wine64.
**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.
**Basic requirements**:
  You need to have the X11 development include files installed
  (called xorg-dev in Debian and libX11-devel in Red Hat).
  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.
**Optional support libraries**:
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  Configure will display notices when optional libraries are not found
  on your system. See https://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for
  hints about the packages you should install. On 64-bit platforms,
  you have to make sure to install the 32-bit versions of these
  libraries.
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## COMPILATION
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To build Wine, do:
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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.
To see compile configuration options, do `./configure --help`.
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For more information, see https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine

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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`
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before installing.

Once installed, you can run the `winecfg` configuration tool. See the
Support area at https://www.winehq.org/ for configuration hints.
## 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.

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)
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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## GETTING MORE INFORMATION
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- **WWW**: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
	https://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
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	bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
- **FAQ**: The Wine FAQ is located at https://www.winehq.org/FAQ
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- **Wiki**: The Wine Wiki is located at https://wiki.winehq.org
- **Gitlab**: Wine development is hosted at https://gitlab.winehq.org
- **Mailing lists**:
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	There are several mailing lists for Wine users and developers;
	see https://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
- **Bugs**: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at https://bugs.winehq.org
	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.libera.chat.