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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 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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Windows binary, and a library (called Winelib) that implements Windows
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API calls using their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also
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be used for porting Win32 code into native Unix executables.
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Wine is free software, and its license (contained in the file LICENSE)
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is BSD style. Basically, you can do anything with it except claim
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./tools/wineinstall
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Run programs as "wine [options] program". For more information and
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problem resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine manpage,
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and the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source.
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problem resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page,
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the files in the documentation directory in the Wine source, and
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especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.com.
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3. REQUIREMENTS
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On FreeBSD, you may want to apply an LDT sharing patch too
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(unless you are tracking -current where it finally has
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been committed just recently), and there also is a small sigtrap
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fix thats needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that its using
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fix that's needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that it's using
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ptrace() by default it may no longer make a difference but it still
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doesn't hurt...) And if you're running a system from the -stable
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branch older than Nov 15 1999, like a 3.3-RELEASE, then you also
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If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the
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documentation directory.
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Wine requires a configuration file named wine.conf. Its default
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location is /usr/local/etc, but you can supply a different name when
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configuring wine by using the --prefix or --sysconfdir options to
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./configure. You can also override the global configuration file with
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a file named "config" in your ~/.wine directory.
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The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file
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documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
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which has to be adapted and copied to one of the two locations
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Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
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~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the man
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page. The file documentation/samples/config contains an example
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configuration file which has to be adapted and copied to the location
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mentioned above.
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See http://www.winehq.com/config.html for further configuration hints.
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See http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml for further configuration hints.
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In order to verify the correctness of the environment you need for
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Wine to run successfully, run "./tools/winecheck | less". You'll get
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7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
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DOCU: grep -i "SearchString" `find documentation/`|more
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WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
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http://www.winehq.com/ : various user guides, application database,
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bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
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FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ
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WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
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http://www.winehq.com/, especially various user guides.
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Untested patches against the current release
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are available on the wine-patches mailing list; see
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http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
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HOWTO: 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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The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
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Usenet: The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
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comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. Please read the file
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documentation/bugreports to see what information should be included
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in a bug report.
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IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on IRCnet.
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Please browse old messages on http://groups.google.com/ to check
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whether your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report
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to the newsgroup.
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IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.openprojects.net.
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CVS: The current Wine development tree is available through CVS.
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Go to http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml for more information.
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Mailing lists:
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There are several mailing lists for Wine developers; see
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http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml for more information.
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If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch ('diff -u'
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format preferred) to julliard@winehq.com or to the
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wine-patches@winehq.com mailing list for inclusion in the next
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