1. INTRODUCTION Wine is a program that allows running MS-Windows programs under X11. It consists of a program loader, that loads and executes an MS-Windows binary, and of an emulation library that translates Windows API calls to their Unix/X11 equivalent. Wine is free software. See the file LICENSE for the details. Basically, you can do anything with it, except claim that you wrote it. 2. COMPILATION You must have one of: Linux version 0.99.13 or above NetBSD-current FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 1.1 You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for it are probably available on the ftp site where you got Wine. They can also be found on ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites. To build Wine, first do a "./configure" and then a "make depend; make". The executable "wine" will be built. "wine" will load and run 16-bit Windows executables. To build Winelib, do a "./configure --with-library", and then a "make depend; make". The library "winelib.a" will be built, allowing to compile Windows source code under Unix. If you have an ELF compiler, you can use "./configure --with-dll" instead to build a shared library. To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with: gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1 where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then run "make depend; make". 3. SETUP Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this will install the wine executable and the man page. Wine requires you to have a file /usr/local/etc/wine.conf (you can supply a different name when configuring wine) or a file called .winerc in your home directory. The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file wine.ini contains a config file example. 4. RUNNING PROGRAMS When invoking Wine, you must specify the entire path to the executable, or a filename only. For example: to run Windows' solitaire: wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file) wine sol.exe wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a dosfilename) wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a unixfilename) Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when a full name is supplied on the commandline. Have a nice game of solitaire, but be careful. Emulation isn't perfect. So, occasionally it may crash. 5. GETTING MORE INFORMATION The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. The Wine FAQ is posted there every month. If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u' format preferred) to julliard@lrc.epfl.ch for inclusion in the next release. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@lrc.epfl.ch
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Tue May 28 19:36:36 1996 Alexandre Julliard <julliard@lrc.epfl.ch> * [controls/combo.c] Destroy the listbox and edit control when destroying the combo. This should prevent crashes on application exit. * [misc/system.c] [if1632/system.spec] Implemented InquireSystem(). * [loader/task.c] [windows/message.c] [windows/queue.c] First attempt at inter-task SendMessage(). Still has a lot of problems. Tue May 28 14:26:04 1996 Peter Bajusz <hyp-x@inf.bme.hu> * [windows/mdi.c] Fixed MDITile with iconic children. Mon May 27 20:28:18 1996 Albrecht Kleine <kleine@ak.sax.de> * [misc/commdlg.c] ChooseFont dialog: - complete rewrite of FontFamilyEnumProc() and FontStyleEnumProc() not real available font types (e.g. "Bold") can not selected - supporting more CF_LIMITSIZE- and CF_...ONLY- flags * [objects/font.c] In FONT_MatchFont perform check if "lfFaceName" is family from X11 only if "lfFaceName" is a windows font family then do a call of FONT_TranslateName() : this results in better font selections in ChooseFont() or applications like charmap.exe or write.exe. Added a ParseFontParms() call if necessary in function FONT_MatchFont(): we need a font name as basis for GetTextFace() even if there isn't one... * [resources/TODO] Inventory of resource translations in sysres_??.rc Fri May 24 16:33:28 1996 Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> * [misc/registry.c] _w95_loadreg: use offset to determine next RGDB position too. Thu May 23 19:35:38 1996 Greg Kreider <kreider@natlab.research.philips.com> * [controls/combo.c] Fixed size of combo, lbox, and button (lb sometimes off by 2 pixels). * [misc/main.c] Result of option "-fixedmap" is to turn flag on. Thu May 23 19:15:41 1996 Ronan Waide <root@waider.ie> * [misc/shell.c] ShellExecute and FindExecutable now both use common code to determine the required executable file.