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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Wed Jul 17 16:10:16 1996 Alexandre Julliard <julliard@lrc.epfl.ch> * [configure.in] Generate include/config.h instead of putting everything on the command-line. Removed -with-malloc-debug option (not useful for end users anyway). Added check for memmove(). * [include/wintypes.h] [*/Makefile.in] Added definition of __WINE__ symbol when compiling Wine code (emulator or library) as opposed to user programs. * [debugger/editline.c] [debugger/readline/*] Moved all the readline code into debugger/editline.c. Removed the readline subdirectory. * [files/profile.c] Added PROFILE_GetWineIniInt(). * [include/stackframe.h] [loader/task.c] The 16-bit stackframe now also exists for Winelib (even though it only ever contains one frame). * [loader/module.c] Added function MODULE_CreateDummyModule() to create a dummy Win16 module for Winelib and Win32. * [memory/ldt.c] Make sure the ldt entry contents will be acceptable for the Linux kernel. * [memory/selector.c] Fixed SetSelectorLimit() when the limit is in pages. * [misc/port.c] Added memmove(). * [miscemu/dpmi.c] Clear the segment registers that contain the selector being freed in int31/ax=0001. Added missing break after SelectorAccessRights call. * [win32/struct32.c] Added conversions for MDICREATESTRUCT. * [windows/winproc.c] Added message conversions for WM_MDICREATE. Tue Jul 16 19:46:24 1996 Pavel Kankovsky <KAN@frode.dcit.cz> * [windows/class.c] Added GetExePtr() call in CLASS_FindClassByAtom(). Mon Jul 15 17:49:38 1996 Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> * [if1632/*.spec] Some more trivial specs added. * [if1632/gdi32.spec] [objects/font.c][windows/dialog.c] CreateFont32* added, changed to new naming std. * [include/windows.h] [include/mmsystem.h] [include/wintypes.h] Some defines/types added. * [win32/thread.c] TlsSetValue() returns boolean. * [win32/resource.c] [loader/pe_resource.c] [loader/resource.c] [controls/menu.c] [objects/bitmap.c] Cleanup of the resource functions, mostly changes to new naming standard and fixing of argument types so that they agree with the win16/win32 API. Thu Jul 11 15:00:00 1996 Alex Korobka <alex@phm30.pharm.sunysb.edu> * [windows/winpos.c] ShowWindow() fixes. * [windows/mdi.c] Fix reversed LPARAM in WM_MDIACTIVATE. * [wine.ini] New option AllocSystemColors tells Wine how many colors to grab from the system colormap. * [objects/bitblt.c] [objects/dc.c] Fixed pink garbage over Word buttons in PseudoColor. Added optional DSTINVERT shortcut for faster text selection. * [misc/wsprintf.c] Skip bogus segmented pointers in wsvnprintf16(). * [objects/gdiobj.c] Added palette handling to UnrealizeObject(). * [objects/color.c] [objects/palette.c] [windows/dce.c] Wine gets palette manager with support for more than 20 colors. Only PseudoColor and TrueColor visuals tested so far. * [windows/winpos.c] [windows/win.c] Set X size hints for WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME windows (no resize) and use XReconfigureWMWindows() instead of XConfigureWindow() in managed mode. * [memory/global.c] Do not allocate more than 640K of DOS memory. * [misc/main.c] Do not allow -desktop and -managed together.