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. UPDATE: Windows 95 components are known to cause more crashes compared to the equivalent Windows 3.1 libraries. 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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Thu Jun 26 02:14:03 1997 Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de> * [Makefile.in] New target install_includes. * [rc/parser.h] [rc/parser.y] [rc/winerc.c] Some bug fixes. Wed Jun 25 14:43:41 1997 Victor Schneider <vischne@ibm.net> * [controls/edit.c] Fixed WM_GETTEXT return value. Tue Jun 24 23:46:04 1997 Michiel van Loon <mfvl@xs4all.nl> * [multimedia/*.c] [include/mmsystem.h] Added more callback code, including (I hope) function callback. Changed some linear pointers into segmented. * [multimedia/audio.c] Removed some bugs. Sat Jun 28 11:37:56 1997 Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> * [if1632/commdlg.spec][if1632/comdlg32.spec][misc/commdlg.c] [include/commdlg.h] Implemented parts of comdlg32: GetOpenFileName32*, GetSaveFileName32*, GetFileTitle32* using the 16 bit equivalents. * [windows/event.c] EVENT_QueryZOrder: check for children !=NULL (happens when using -managed). * [BUGS][DEVELOPER-HINTS] Updated. * [objects/text.c] Added GetTextCharset... (stub mostly). Sat Jun 21 08:47:58 1997 Philippe De Muyter <phdm@info.ucl.ac.be> * [if1632/kernel.spec] [if1632/gdi.spec] [include/windows.h] [loader/resource.c] [graphics/x11drv/xfont.c] SetResourceHandler & RemoveFontResource prototypes fixed. * [if1632/relay.c] [if1632/kernel.spec] [if1632/user.spec] [if1632/olesvr.spec] [if1632/commdlg.spec] [if1632/ddeml.spec] [if1632/gdi.spec] [if1632/lzexpand.spec] [if1632/shell.spec] [include/windows.h] [memory/string.c] [tools/build.c] New type of parameter allowed in .spec files : str, printed as a string with -debugmsg +relay. .spec files updated. * [objects/dc.c] In DC_SetupGCForPen, call BlackPixelOfScreen, not BlackPixel. Likewise for WhitePixel. * [objects/gdiobj.c] [graphics/x11drv/brush.c] Use BS_HATCHED with an added entry in HatchBrushes for DkGrayBrush, instead of BS_SOLID. Fri May 30 17:58:00 1997 Chris Faherty <chrisf@america.com> * [windows/keyboard.c] Added vkey to scancode translation table. This was primarily to fix Citrix WinFrame client which always needs scancodes in WM_KEYDOWN. Tested with Exceed 5.1.0.1 & XFree86 3.1.2.