diff --git a/README b/README
index 6b7cdcbff4dcf1a36148b6ded966a3fa2e3c522b..5dddbacf50c2e1da3f0f01b9baa30cfca1a90e05 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -146,14 +146,6 @@ In case of library loading errors
 (e.g. "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), make sure
 to add the library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root.
 
-In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
-Wine to run successfully, you may run "./tools/winecheck | less".
-You'll get a percentage score indicating "Wine configuration correctness".
-As this program is alpha, it doesn't run a truly thorough test yet, though,
-so it should be taken as a first verification step only.
-
-See wine.conf man page on how to switch to text mode only support if desired.
-
 6. RUNNING PROGRAMS
 
 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
@@ -168,7 +160,7 @@ For example: to run Solitaire:
 
 	wine /usr/windows/sol.exe  (using Unix filename syntax)
 
-        wine -- sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
+        wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
 				   (calling program with parameters)
 
 Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
diff --git a/dlls/kernel/Makefile.in b/dlls/kernel/Makefile.in
index 50f9ab607c11eed9055e83ada0a13d8f0514d577..27d3842d3cc8b8eaefb48c2b0e70b516b31779e5 100644
--- a/dlls/kernel/Makefile.in
+++ b/dlls/kernel/Makefile.in
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ SPEC_SRCS16 = \
 C_SRCS = \
 	$(TOPOBJDIR)/files/directory.c \
 	$(TOPOBJDIR)/files/smb.c \
-	$(TOPOBJDIR)/misc/options.c \
 	$(TOPOBJDIR)/misc/registry.c \
 	actctx.c \
 	atom.c \
diff --git a/dlls/kernel/process.c b/dlls/kernel/process.c
index 51c35cb6d17ce8e9354689c21c8e66e979200d0f..5e122c74a874537bbd1192e56ff89cc9cba25abb 100644
--- a/dlls/kernel/process.c
+++ b/dlls/kernel/process.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 #include "ntstatus.h"
 #include "thread.h"
 #include "module.h"
-#include "options.h"
 #include "kernel_private.h"
 #include "wine/exception.h"
 #include "wine/server.h"
@@ -636,6 +635,21 @@ static inline void fix_unicode_string( UNICODE_STRING *str, char *end_ptr )
     }
 }
 
+static void version(void)
+{
+    MESSAGE( "%s\n", PACKAGE_STRING );
+    ExitProcess(0);
+}
+
+static void usage(void)
+{
+    MESSAGE( "%s\n", PACKAGE_STRING );
+    MESSAGE( "Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program\n" );
+    MESSAGE( "       wine --help                   Display this help and exit\n");
+    MESSAGE( "       wine --version                Output version information and exit\n");
+    ExitProcess(0);
+}
+
 
 /***********************************************************************
  *           init_user_process_params
@@ -780,9 +794,6 @@ static BOOL process_init( char *argv[], char **environ )
     /* Copy the parent environment */
     if (!build_initial_environment( environ )) return FALSE;
 
-    /* Parse command line arguments */
-    if (!info_size) OPTIONS_ParseOptions( argv );
-
     /* Create device symlinks */
     VOLUME_CreateDevices();
 
@@ -867,7 +878,12 @@ void __wine_kernel_init(void)
         WCHAR buffer[MAX_PATH];
         WCHAR exe_nameW[MAX_PATH];
 
-        if (!__wine_main_argv[0]) OPTIONS_Usage();
+        if (!__wine_main_argv[0]) usage();
+        if (__wine_main_argc == 1)
+        {
+            if (strcmp(__wine_main_argv[0], "--help") == 0) usage();
+            if (strcmp(__wine_main_argv[0], "--version") == 0) version();
+        }
 
         MultiByteToWideChar( CP_UNIXCP, 0, __wine_main_argv[0], -1, exe_nameW, MAX_PATH );
         if (!find_exe_file( exe_nameW, buffer, MAX_PATH, &main_exe_file ))
diff --git a/documentation/README.de b/documentation/README.de
index 05a71620b8d43bab539ee17b7a21a21573801b2c..9694df6076522fcc3d20209f396a0ce4adcf5a81 100644
--- a/documentation/README.de
+++ b/documentation/README.de
@@ -156,17 +156,6 @@ Im Falle von Library-Ladefehlern (z.B. "Error while loading shared libraries:
 libntdll.so") fügen Sie bitte den Library-Pfad zur Datei /etc/ld.so.conf hinzu 
 und führen Sie ldconfig als root aus.
 
-Um zu prüfen, ob Ihre Umgebung passend eingerichtet ist, um Wine erfolgreich
-laufen zu lassen, können Sie das Kommando "./tools/winecheck | less" ausführen.
-Es wird Ihnen eine Punktzahl in Prozent mitgeteilt, welche die "Korrektheit der
-Wine-Konfiguration" darstellt.
-Da dieses Programm immer noch im Alpha-Stadium ist, führt es aber keinen wirklich
-umfassenden Test durch, die Ergebnisse der Überprüfungsollten sollten also nur
-als erster Prüfschritt betrachtet werden.
-
-In der Man-Page zu wine.conf können Sie nachlesen, wie Sie zum reinen Text-Modus
-wechseln können, wenn gewünscht.
-
 6. AUSFÜHREN VON PROGRAMMEN
 
 Wenn Sie Wine aufrufen, können Sie den vollständigen Pfad zur ausführbaren
@@ -181,7 +170,7 @@ Beispiel: Um Solitaire auszuf
 
 	wine /usr/windows/sol.exe  (die Dateinamen-Syntax von Unix benutzend)
 
-        wine -- sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
+        wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
 				   (Programmaufruf mit Parametern)
 
 Hinweis: Der Pfad zur Datei wird auch zum Pfad hinzugefügt, wenn ein vollständiger
diff --git a/documentation/README.fr b/documentation/README.fr
index 71bf7287d552da4008b9628076dbe63fe5bcad4f..ef82f39cbf9115d8db41948b8b02de97e44dbbb9 100644
--- a/documentation/README.fr
+++ b/documentation/README.fr
@@ -157,16 +157,6 @@ En cas d'erreur de chargement de librairie (par exemple
 "Error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so"), assurez vous d'ajouter
 le chemin des librairies à /etc/ld.so.conf et exécuter ldconfig en tant que root.
 
-Pour pouvoir vérifier l'exactitude de l'environnement dont vous avez besoin pour
-que Wine s'exécute correctement, vous pouvez exécuter "./tools/winecheck | less".
-Vous aurez un score en pourcentage indiquant "l'exactitude de la configuration
-de Wine". Ce programme est encore en développement alpha, il n'effectue pas
-encore un véritable test en profondeur, il devrait cependant être utile dans
-une première vérification.
-
-Lisez les page man de wine.conf pour savoir comment basculer en un mode texte
-uniquement.
-
 6. EXÉCUTER DES PROGRAMMES
 
 Lorsque l'on invoque Wine, vous pouvez spécifier le chemin entier vers
@@ -182,7 +172,7 @@ Pour ex
 
 	wine /usr/windows/sol.exe  (en utilisant la syntaxe de fichiers Unix)
 
-	wine -- sol.exe /parametre1 -parametre2 parametre3
+	wine sol.exe /parametre1 -parametre2 parametre3
 			(en appelant le programme avec des paramètres)
 
 Note: le chemin du fichier sera également additionné au chemin par défaut
diff --git a/documentation/README.it b/documentation/README.it
index da61ed17d4b54248e910dc555d991b56f869b7a1..e0c2d5af5e0f39682ff6d822624439af7fac364a 100644
--- a/documentation/README.it
+++ b/documentation/README.it
@@ -154,16 +154,6 @@ Nel caso di errori di caricamento delle librerie
 aggiungere il percorso della directory a /etc/ld.so.conf ed esegui ldconfig come
 root.
 
-Per verificare la correttezza dell'ambiente di cui hai bisogno per eseguire Wine
-con successo, puoi eseguire "./tools/winecheck | less".
-Otterrai un punteggio percentuale che indica la "Correttezza della
-configurazione di Wine".
-poiché questo programma è una alpha, anche se non esegue un vero test completo
-ancora, può essere utilizzato come un primo step di verifica.
-
-Controlla la pagina wine.conf man su come passare alla modalità solo testuale
-se lo desideri.
-
 6. ESEGUIRE I PROGRAMMI
 
 Quando si esegue Wine, si può specificare l'intero percorso dell'eseguibile o
@@ -176,7 +166,7 @@ Per esempio: per eseguire Solitario:
 
 	wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (utilizzando la sintassi DOS)
 	wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (utilizzando la sintassi Unix)
-	wine - sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
+	wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
 				  (chiama il programma con dei parametri)
 
 Nota: il percorso del file può essere aggiunto al percorso quando è fornito un
diff --git a/documentation/README.pt_br b/documentation/README.pt_br
index eb92eaa6245d7d32b505fc4755db400b4d585a37..6ba86d543f7bb21c65c78867144390a405d32e5e 100644
--- a/documentation/README.pt_br
+++ b/documentation/README.pt_br
@@ -150,15 +150,6 @@ No caso de erros de carga da biblioteca
 de adicionar o caminho da biblioteca a /etc/ld.so.conf e executar
 ldconfig como root.
 
-A fim verificar a exatidão do ambiente que você necessita para que o 
-Wine funcione com sucesso, você pode executar "./tools/winecheck | less".
-Você irá obter um percentual do resultado indicando "Wine configuration 
-correctness".
-Como este programa é alfa, não rodou um teste verdadeiramente completo ainda,
-embora, assim deve ser feito como uma primeira etapa da verificação somente. 
-
-Veja em "man wine.conf" como se muda para o suporte em modo texto se desejar.
-
 6.EXECUTAR PROGRAMAS
 
 Ao invocar o Wine, você pode especificar o caminho completo do executável,
@@ -172,7 +163,7 @@ Por exemplo:  para executar a Paci
 
 	wine /usr/windows/sol.exe	(usando um nome de arquivo Unix)
 
-        wine -- sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
+        wine sol.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
 				   (chamando o programa com parãmetros)
 
 Nota: o caminho do arquivo será também adicionado ao caminho 
diff --git a/documentation/running.sgml b/documentation/running.sgml
index 4416ca9664b7144e781a5a3fd676e4b8819174d3..7035b372bc3c219e0c73abca8f5771d876c5db7f 100644
--- a/documentation/running.sgml
+++ b/documentation/running.sgml
@@ -73,30 +73,20 @@
       <title>How to run Wine</title>
 
       <para>
-        You can invoke the <command>wine --help</command> command to
-        get a listing of all Wine's command-line parameters:
+        You can simply invoke the <command>wine</command> command to
+        get a small help message:
       </para>
       <para>
         <screen>
-Usage: ./wine [options] program_name [arguments]
-
-Options:
-   --debugmsg name  Turn debugging-messages on or off
-   --help,-h        Show this help message
-   --version,-v     Display the Wine version
+Wine 20040405
+Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
+       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
+       wine --version                Output version information and exit
         </screen>
       </para>
 
       <para>
-        You can specify as many options as you want, if any.
-        Typically, you will want to have your configuration file set
-        up with a sensible set of defaults; in this case, you can run
-        <command>wine</command> without explicitly listing any
-        options.  In rare cases, you might want to override certain
-        parameters on the command line.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-        After the options, you should put the name of the file you
+        The first argument should be the name of the file you
         want <command>wine</command> to execute.  If the executable is
         in the <parameter>Path</parameter> parameter in the
         configuration file, you can simply give the executable file
@@ -148,8 +138,25 @@ Options:
     <sect1 id="command-line-options">
       <title>Wine Command Line Options</title>
 
-      <sect2 id="config-parameter">
-        <title>--debugmsg [channels]</title>
+      <sect2>
+        <title>--help</title>
+        <para>
+          Shows a small command line help page.
+        </para>
+      </sect2>
+
+      <sect2>
+        <title>--version</title>
+        <para>
+	  Shows the Wine version string. Useful to verify your installation.
+        </para>
+      </sect2>
+    </sect1>
+
+    <sect1>
+      <title>Environment variables</title>
+      <sect2>
+        <title>WINEDEBUG=[channels]</title>
         <para>
           Wine isn't perfect, and many Windows applications still
           don't run without bugs under Wine (but then, a lot of programs
@@ -178,7 +185,7 @@ Options:
           section of configuring wine you can 
           modify what the <parameter>relay</parameter> trace reports).
           Logging does slow down Wine
-          quite a bit, so don't use <parameter>--debugmsg</parameter>
+          quite a bit, so don't use <parameter>WINEDEBUG</parameter>
           unless you really do want log files.
         </para>
         <para>
@@ -197,28 +204,28 @@ Options:
           To turn on a debug channel, use the form
           <parameter>class+channel</parameter>.  To turn it off, use
           <parameter>class-channel</parameter>.  To list more than one
-          channel in the same <parameter>--debugmsg</parameter>
+          channel in the same <parameter>WINEDEBUG</parameter>
           option, separate them with commas.  For example, to request
           <parameter>warn</parameter> class messages in the
           <parameter>heap</parameter> debug channel, you could invoke
           <command>wine</command> like this:
         </para>
         <screen>
-<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>wine --debugmsg warn+heap <replaceable>program_name</replaceable></userinput>
+<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>WINEDEBUG=warn+heap wine <replaceable>program_name</replaceable></userinput>
         </screen>
         <para>
           If you leave off the message class, <command>wine</command>
           will display messages from all four classes for that channel:
         </para>
         <screen>
-<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>wine --debugmsg +heap <replaceable>program_name</replaceable></userinput>
+<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>WINEDEBUG=heap wine <replaceable>program_name</replaceable></userinput>
         </screen>
         <para>
           If you wanted to see log messages for everything except the
           relay channel, you might do something like this:
         </para>
         <screen>
-<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>wine --debugmsg +all,-relay <replaceable>program_name</replaceable></userinput>
+<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>WINEDEBUG=+all,-relay wine <replaceable>program_name</replaceable></userinput>
         </screen>
         <para>
 	  Here is a list of the debug channels and classes in Wine.
@@ -286,20 +293,6 @@ Options:
             The Wine Developer's Guide</ulink>.
         </para>
       </sect2>
-
-      <sect2>
-        <title>--help</title>
-        <para>
-          Shows a small command line help page.
-        </para>
-      </sect2>
-
-      <sect2>
-        <title>--version</title>
-        <para>
-	  Shows the Wine version string. Useful to verify your installation.
-        </para>
-      </sect2>
     </sect1>
 
     <sect1 id="wineserver-command-line-options">
@@ -319,7 +312,7 @@ Options:
 	  Sets the debug level for debug output in the terminal that
 	  wineserver got started in at level &lt;n&gt;.
 	  In other words: everything greater than 0 will enable
-	  wineserver specific debugging output (not to confuse with Wine's wineserver logging channel, --debugmsg +server, though!).
+	  wineserver specific debugging output.
         </para>
       </sect2>
 
diff --git a/documentation/wine.conf.man b/documentation/wine.conf.man
index 3b8c180cc32e8b52574a998ced74af5337509db1..3d83efcae35ac48fa3556df6a17fed6890f35a4a 100644
--- a/documentation/wine.conf.man
+++ b/documentation/wine.conf.man
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ wine cannot use native versions for these libraries.
 Always make sure that you have some kind of strategy in mind when you start
 fiddling with the current defaults and needless to say that you must know
 what you are doing.
---debugmsg +loaddll might come in handy for experimenting with that stuff.
+WINEDEBUG=loaddll might come in handy for experimenting with that stuff.
 .PP
 .B [Debug]
 .br
diff --git a/documentation/wine.man.in b/documentation/wine.man.in
index f19b298462f0fdbb03656e6f5005241e5165a0f9..ef6d08245f4df45098aab98f2fe1fe3d960201e8 100644
--- a/documentation/wine.man.in
+++ b/documentation/wine.man.in
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 .\" -*- nroff -*-
-.TH WINE 1 "May 2002" "@PACKAGE_STRING@" "Windows On Unix"
+.TH WINE 1 "May 2004" "@PACKAGE_STRING@" "Windows On Unix"
 .SH NAME
 wine \- run Windows programs on Unix
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.BI "wine " "[wine_options] " "[--] " "program " "[arguments ... ]"
+.BI "wine " "program " "[arguments ... ]"
+.br
+.B wine --help
+.br
+.B wine --version
 .PP
 For instructions on passing arguments to Windows programs, please see the
 .B
@@ -28,27 +32,18 @@ run). Not using
 for CUI programs will only provide very limited console support, and your
 program might not function properly.
 .PP
-.B wine 
-currently runs a growing list of applications written for all kinds of
-Windows versions >= Win2.0, e.g. Win3.1, Win95/98, NT.
-Older, simpler applications work better than newer, more complex ones.
-Using Windows ME or Win2000 components with Wine is more problematic than
-using none at all or the ones from older Windows versions.
-A large percentage of the API has been implemented,
-although there are still several major pieces of work left to do.
+When invoked with
+.B --help
+or
+.B --version
+as the only argument,
+.B wine
+will simply print a small help message or its version respectively and exit.
 .SH REQUIREMENTS AND INSTALLATION
 Read the README file in the Wine source distribution and the
 .BR wine.conf (5)
 man page to know what Wine requires and how it is installed from
 source.
-.SH OPTIONS
-.TP
-.I --debugmsg [xxx]#name[,[xxx1]#name1]
-Turn debugging messages on or off.  This option is deprecated, you
-should use the
-.I WINEDEBUG
-environment variable instead (see below).
-.PD 1
 .SH PROGRAM/ARGUMENTS
 The program name may be specified in DOS format (
 .I
@@ -64,45 +59,6 @@ a shell, e.g.
 .PP
 wine C:\(rs\(rsProgram\(rs Files\(rs\(rsMyPrg\(rs\(rstest.exe
 .PP
-Command line processing goes as
-follows: first 
-.B wine
-checks whether one or more of the above mentioned 
-.B wine 
-options have been specified. These
-are removed from the command line, which is passed to the windows program. You can use
-the parameter 
-.I -- 
-to indicate that 
-.B wine 
-should stop command line processing. This is needed in case a windows program understands 
-an option that is usually interpreted (and thus removed from the command line) 
-by 
-.B wine. 
-For example, if you want to execute 
-.B wine 
-with the options 
-.I --debugmsg +module
-and if 
-.B wine 
-should run the program 
-.I myapp.exe
-with the arguments
-.I --display 3d somefile
-, then you could use the following command line to invoke 
-.B wine:
-.PP
-.I wine --debugmsg +module -- myapp.exe --display 3d somefile
-.PP 
-Note that in contrast to previous versions of 
-.B wine, 
-you must not pass 
-program name and program option in one argument to 
-.B wine. 
-To run more
-than one windows program, just execute 
-.B wine 
-once with the name of each program as argument. 
 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
 .B wine
 makes the environment variables of the shell from which
@@ -323,7 +279,7 @@ in the top-level directory of the source distribution.
 .SH BUGS
 .PP
 A status report on many applications is available from
-.I http://www.winehq.org/Apps.
+.I http://appdb.winehq.org.
 Please add entries to this list for applications you currently run.
 .PP
 Bug reports may be posted to Wine Bugzilla
@@ -350,18 +306,10 @@ http://www.winehq.org/cvs
 WineHQ, the
 .B wine
 development headquarters, is at
-.I http://www.winehq.org/.
+.I http://www.winehq.org.
 This website contains a great deal of information about
 .B wine.
 .PP
-The
-.B wine 
-newsgroup is 
-.I comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
-It is used for discussion of various 
-.B wine
-end user aspects/help.
-.PP
 For further information about 
 .B wine
 development, you might want to subscribe to the 
diff --git a/include/options.h b/include/options.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e14ddbd31f9819aab8885bbe3efecd517b86963..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/include/options.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Command-line options.
- *
- * Copyright 1994 Alexandre Julliard
- *
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- * Lesser General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
- */
-
-#ifndef __WINE_OPTIONS_H
-#define __WINE_OPTIONS_H
-
-#include <windef.h>
-
-extern void DECLSPEC_NORETURN OPTIONS_Usage(void);
-extern void OPTIONS_ParseOptions( char *argv[] );
-
-#endif  /* __WINE_OPTIONS_H */
diff --git a/misc/options.c b/misc/options.c
deleted file mode 100644
index b27a37c4e4179a2036c9ecebab5042f7bd177c01..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/misc/options.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,177 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Option parsing
- *
- * Copyright 2000 Alexandre Julliard
- *
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- * Lesser General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
- */
-
-#include "config.h"
-#include <stdarg.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-
-#include "windef.h"
-#include "winbase.h"
-#include "winnls.h"
-#include "winreg.h"
-#include "winternl.h"
-#include "wine/library.h"
-#include "options.h"
-#include "wine/debug.h"
-
-struct option_descr
-{
-    const char *longname;
-    char        shortname;
-    int         has_arg;
-    void      (*func)( const char *arg );
-    const char *usage;
-};
-
-static void do_debugmsg( const char *arg );
-static void do_help( const char *arg );
-static void do_version( const char *arg );
-
-static const struct option_descr option_table[] =
-{
-    { "debugmsg",     0, 1, do_debugmsg,
-      "--debugmsg name  No longer supported, use the WINEDEBUG variable instead" },
-    { "help",       'h', 0, do_help,
-      "--help,-h        Show this help message" },
-    { "version",    'v', 0, do_version,
-      "--version,-v     Display the Wine version" },
-    { NULL,           0, 0, NULL, NULL }  /* terminator */
-};
-
-
-static void do_help( const char *arg )
-{
-    OPTIONS_Usage();
-}
-
-static void do_version( const char *arg )
-{
-    MESSAGE( "%s\n", PACKAGE_STRING );
-    ExitProcess(0);
-}
-
-static void do_debugmsg( const char *arg )
-{
-    MESSAGE("Error: the --debugmsg option is no longer supported. You should use\n");
-    MESSAGE("the WINEDEBUG environment variable instead, like this:\n\n");
-    MESSAGE("  WINEDEBUG=%s wine ...\n\n", arg );
-    ExitProcess(1);
-}
-
-static inline void remove_options( char *argv[], int pos, int count )
-{
-    while ((argv[pos] = argv[pos+count])) pos++;
-}
-
-/* parse options from the argv array and remove all the recognized ones */
-static void parse_options( char *argv[] )
-{
-    const struct option_descr *opt;
-    int i;
-
-    for (i = 0; argv[i]; i++)
-    {
-        const char *equalarg = NULL;
-        char *p = argv[i];
-        if (*p++ != '-') continue;  /* not an option */
-        if (*p && !p[1]) /* short name */
-        {
-            if (*p == '-') break; /* "--" option */
-            for (opt = option_table; opt->longname; opt++) if (opt->shortname == *p) break;
-        }
-        else  /* long name */
-        {
-	    const char *equal = strchr  (p, '=');
-            if (*p == '-') p++;
-            /* check for the long name */
-            for (opt = option_table; opt->longname; opt++) {
-	        /* Plain --option */
-                if (!strcmp( p, opt->longname )) break;
-
-		/* --option=value */
-		if (opt->has_arg &&
-		    equal &&
-		    strlen (opt->longname) == equal - p &&
-		    !strncmp (p, opt->longname, equal - p)) {
-		        equalarg = equal + 1;
-		        break;
-		    }
-	    }
-        }
-        if (!opt->longname) continue;
-
-	if (equalarg)
-	{
-            opt->func( equalarg );
-            remove_options( argv, i, 1 );
-	}
-        else if (opt->has_arg && argv[i+1])
-        {
-            opt->func( argv[i+1] );
-            remove_options( argv, i, 2 );
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            opt->func( "" );
-            remove_options( argv, i, 1 );
-        }
-        i--;
-    }
-}
-
-/***********************************************************************
- *              OPTIONS_Usage
- */
-void OPTIONS_Usage(void)
-{
-    const struct option_descr *opt;
-    MESSAGE( "%s\n\n", PACKAGE_STRING );
-    MESSAGE( "Usage: wine [options] [--] program_name [arguments]\n" );
-    MESSAGE("The -- has to be used if you specify arguments (of the program)\n\n");
-    MESSAGE( "Options:\n" );
-    for (opt = option_table; opt->longname; opt++) MESSAGE( "   %s\n", opt->usage );
-    ExitProcess(0);
-}
-
-/***********************************************************************
- *              OPTIONS_ParseOptions
- */
-void OPTIONS_ParseOptions( char *argv[] )
-{
-    int i;
-
-    parse_options( argv + 1 );
-
-    /* check if any option remains */
-    for (i = 1; argv[i]; i++)
-    {
-        if (!strcmp( argv[i], "--" ))
-        {
-            remove_options( argv, i, 1 );
-            break;
-        }
-        if (argv[i][0] == '-')
-        {
-            MESSAGE( "Unknown option '%s'\n\n", argv[i] );
-            OPTIONS_Usage();
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/tools/winegcc/winegcc.c b/tools/winegcc/winegcc.c
index 0f8d5f918011dad548fb794858266710ecf3cfa5..00dbcd6e96fd33e074bc9f313715109991ec9b5b 100644
--- a/tools/winegcc/winegcc.c
+++ b/tools/winegcc/winegcc.c
@@ -119,18 +119,6 @@ static const char* app_loader_template =
     "    ;;\n"
     "esac\n"
     "\n"
-    "while true; do\n"
-    "  case \"$1\" in\n"
-    "    --debugmsg)\n"
-    "      debugmsg=\"$1 $2\"\n"
-    "      shift; shift;\n"
-    "      ;;\n"
-    "    *)\n"
-    "      break\n"
-    "      ;;\n"
-    "  esac\n"
-    "done\n"
-    "\n"
     "# figure out the full app path\n"
     "if [ -n \"$appdir\" ]; then\n"
     "    apppath=\"$appdir/$appname\"\n"
@@ -144,7 +132,7 @@ static const char* app_loader_template =
     "if [ ! -x \"$WINELOADER\" ]; then WINELOADER=\"wine\"; fi\n"
     "\n"
     "# and try to start the app\n"
-    "exec \"$WINELOADER\" $debugmsg -- \"$apppath\" \"$@\"\n"
+    "exec \"$WINELOADER\" \"$apppath\" \"$@\"\n"
 ;
 
 static int keep_generated = 0;