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README
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README
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Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
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(including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix. It
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consists of a program loader which loads and executes an Microsoft
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consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
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Windows binary, and a library that implements Windows API calls using
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their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also be used for
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porting Win32 code into native Unix executables.
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that you wrote it.
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2. COMPILATION
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2. REQUIREMENTS
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To compile and run Wine, you must have one of:
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To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
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Linux version 2.0.36 or above
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FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later
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Solaris x86 2.5 or later
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You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
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it are probably available on the ftp site where you got Wine. They can
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also be found on ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites. If you are using
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RedHat, install the xpm and xpm-devel packages.
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Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
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(specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
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threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
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consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
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On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required. You also need flex and yacc.
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Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are using RedHat,
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install the flex and bison packages.
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You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
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it are probably available on the FTP site where you got Wine. They can
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also be found on ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites. If you are using
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RedHat, install the xpm and xpm-devel packages. Debian users need
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xpm4.7, xpm4g, and xpm4g-dev 3.4j.
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On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required. You also need flex version 2.5
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or later and yacc. Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
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using RedHat, install the flex and bison packages.
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3. COMPILATION
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To build Wine, first run "./configure" and then run "make depend; make".
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This will build the library "libwine.a" and the program "wine".
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run "make depend; make".
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3. SETUP
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4. SETUP
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Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
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will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
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See www.winehq.com/config.html for further configuration hints.
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4. RUNNING PROGRAMS
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5. RUNNING PROGRAMS
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When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
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or a filename only.
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see what information is required.
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5. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
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6. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
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FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/faq.html.
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are available on the wine-patches mailing list; see
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http://www.winehq.com/dev.html#ml for more information.
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HOWTO: A pre-release version of the Wine HOWTO is available at
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http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
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Usenet: Please browse old messages on http://www.dejanews.com/ to check whether
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your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report to the
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newsgroup.
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.\" -*- nroff -*-
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.TH WINE 1 "February 3, 1999" "Version 990131" "Windows On Unix"
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.TH WINE 1 "April 26, 1999" "Version 990328" "Windows On Unix"
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.SH NAME
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wine \- run Windows programs on Unix
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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ones. A large percentage of the API has been implemented, although there
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are still several major pieces of work left to do.
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.SH REQUIREMENTS
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At present,
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.B wine
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will run under any Linux kernel more recent than 0.99.13, or
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under recent releases of NetBSD/i386, FreeBSD and OpenBSD/i386. Some bugs
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were fixed and additional features were added late in the Linux 2.0.x
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series, so if you have an old Linux kernel, you may want to upgrade to the
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latest 2.0.x release. If you have FreeBSD, make sure you have the USER_LDT,
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requires kernel-level threads to run. Currently, only Linux version 2.0
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or later, FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later, and Solaris x86
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version 2.5 or later are supported. Other operating systems which support
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kernel threads may be supported in the future.
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.PP
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Although Linux version 2.0 will mostly work, certain features (specifically
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LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32 threads were not
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implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get consistent thread-related
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crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2. Also, some bugs were fixed and
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additional features were added late in the Linux 2.0.x series, so if you have
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a very old Linux kernel, you may want to upgrade to at least the latest 2.0.x
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release.
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.PP
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If you have FreeBSD, make sure you have the USER_LDT,
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SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options turned on in your kernel. If you
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are building Wine on Solaris, you will most likely need to build Wine
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with the GNU toolchain (gcc, gas, etc.)
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.PP
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The current support for multithreaded applications relies on the
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.BR clone (2)
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system call, which is currently only available on Linux. It should be
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possible to implement this for other operating systems, however.
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.PP
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.B X
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must be installed. To use Wine's support for multithreaded applications,
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your X libraries must be reentrant. If you have libc6 (glibc2), or you
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section to get it included in this man page.
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.PP
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.B gcc
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2.7.x or later is required to build
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2.7.2 or later is required to build
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.B wine.
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Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files are
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compiled with optimization.
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currently doesn't work with wine. The cause of this problem is unknown.
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.PP
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.B flex
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and
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version 2.5 or later and
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.B yacc
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are required. Bison can be used in replace of yacc. If you have Redhat,
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make sure the bison and flex packages are installed.
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