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 OpenBSD/i386 2.1 or later 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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Sat Jul 19 13:03:01 1997 Alexandre Julliard <julliard@lrc.epfl.ch> * [tools/build.c] [include/stackframe.h] Save the complete %ebp register in CallFrom16; fixes a crash with LabView reported by Andreas Mohr. * [loader/main.c] Avoid executing a built-in DLL. * [controls/static.c] Converted static window procedure to Win32. * [windows/message.c] [windows/queue.c] [include/queue.h] Hacked SendMessage functions to support inter-task messages with SendMessage32A/W. Sun Jul 13 16:55:35 1997 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@bero-online.ml.org> * [ipc/bit_array.c] Don't use bitops.h in Linux 2.1.x (these versions do not return the previous state for clear_bit and set_bit) * [ipc/shm_main_blk.c] Adapt to GLIBC's ipc_perm structure. * [memory/ldt.c] Include <asm/unistd.h> on Linux/GLIBC systems (required for _syscall3). Wed Jul 9 23:53:19 1997 David A. Cuthbert <dacut@henry.ece.cmu.edu> * [include/options.h] [files/profile.c] Added PROFILE_GetWineIniBool and PROFILE_EnumerateWineIniSection. * [include/sysmetrics.h] [include/windows.h] [windows/sysmetrics.c] All sysmetrics moved to array (no more constant macros). Added MOUSEWHEELPRESENT metric. * [include/bitmap.h] [objects/oembitmap.c] Added OBM_Init() (see also loader/main.c) and more support for Win95 bitmaps; added size info to OEM bitmaps. * [include/graphics.h] [windows/graphics.h] Added GRAPH_DrawGenericReliefRect. * [loader/main.c] Added TWEAK_Init() and TWEAK_CheckConfiguration() calls (the latter checks for invalid entries in wine.conf). * [include/debug.h] [include/stddebug.h] [include/nonclient.h] [include/tweak.h] [controls/menu.c] [misc/tweak.c] [objects/gdiobj.c] [windows/syscolor.c] [windows/nonclient.c] [BUGS] [documentation/win95look] Added tweaks for Windows 95 interface support. See documentation/win95look for more information. * [controls/edit.c] Fixed EDIT_MoveHome bug. * [misc/ver.c] Changed name of dprintf_ver_string to ver_dstring to fix problem with tools/make_debug utility. Wed Jul 9 21:31:54 1997 Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> * [objects/dib.c] Don't use palettes with dibs with biBitCount > 8. * [misc/ole2nls.c][misc/ver.c] IsValidLocale, EnumSystemLocales fixed (winhlp32.exe works) Some VerLanguage coded moved to ole2nls.c, some cleanups. * [multimedia/mcistring.c] Fixed "capabilities <dev> device type" crash (cool.exe). * [misc/main.c] SystemParametersInfo*: added stub option 41 (GETNONCLIENTMETRICS), duplicated some stuff away from SPI16 that writes 32bit vars.(one COMCTL32.DLL crash, freecell.exe) Tue Jul 8 22:40:53 1997 Morten Welinder <terra@diku.dk> * [if1632/shell32.spec] Use Windows 95's ordinals. Help wanted, inquire within. Mon Jul 7 11:20:36 1997 Philippe De Muyter <phdm@info.ucl.ac.be> * [if1632/relay.c] [if1632/user.spec] [if1632/kernel.spec] [tools/build-spec.txt] [tools/build.c] Added type 'segstr' (segmented pointer to null-terminated string) to .spec files. * [windows/user.c] [if1632/user.spec] ExitWindowsExec stub function added. Mon Jul 7 01:18:25 1997 U. Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de> * [files/file.c] [include/winbase.h] [if1632/kernel32.spec] Implement MoveFileEx32, some enhancement for Movefile32. Sat Jul 5 18:13:48 1997 Bruce Milner <Bruce.Milner@genetics.utah.edu. * [files/file.c] [if1632/kernel32.spec] [include/winerror.h] [msdos/int21.c] [win32/file.c] Add LockFile/UnlockFile implementation. Add back in int21 func(0x5c) Record locking functions. * [files/file.c] Fixed bug with OF_REOPEN in FILE_DoOpenFile. Fri Jul 4 12:00:00 1997 Henrik Olsen <Henrik.Olsen@iaeste.dk> * [misc/ole2nls.c] [programs/progman/Da.rc] [programs/winhelp/Da.rc] [resources/sysres_Da.rc] Added/updated Danish language support. Thu Jul 3 13:04:20 1997 Claus Fischer <fischer@iue.tuwien.ac.at> * [files/dos_fs.c] Properly implemented DOSFS_UnixTimeToFileTime and DOSFS_FileTimeToUnixTime. * [documentation/wine.texinfo] First version of texinfo documentation.