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1. INTRODUCTION
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Wine is a program that allows running MS-Windows programs under X11.
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It consists of a program loader, that loads and executes an
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MS-Windows binary, and of an emulation library that translates Windows
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API calls to their Unix/X11 equivalent.
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Wine is free software. See the file LICENSE for the details.
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Basically, you can do anything with it, except claim that you wrote it.
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2. COMPILATION
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You must have one of:
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Linux version 0.99.13 or above
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NetBSD-current
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FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 1.1
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OpenBSD/i386 2.1 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.
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To build Wine, first do a "./configure" and then a "make depend; make".
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This will build the library "libwine.a" and the program "wine".
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The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
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The library "libwine.a" can be used to compile and link Windows source
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code under Unix. If you have an ELF compiler, you can use
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"./configure --enable-dll" to build a shared library instead.
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To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
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top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
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file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
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gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
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where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
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Wine-yymmdd.diff.gz). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
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run "make depend; make".
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3. 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 and the man page.
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Wine requires you to have a file /usr/local/etc/wine.conf (you can
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supply a different name when configuring wine) or a file called .winerc
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in your home directory.
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The format of this file is explained in the man page. The file
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wine.ini contains a config file example.
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4. RUNNING PROGRAMS
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When invoking Wine, you must specify the entire path to the executable,
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or a filename only.
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For example: to run Windows' solitaire:
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wine sol (using the searchpath to locate the file)
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wine sol.exe
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wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe (using a dosfilename)
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wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a unixfilename)
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Note: the path of the file will also be added to the path when
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a full name is supplied on the commandline.
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Have a nice game of solitaire, but be careful. Emulation isn't perfect.
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So, occasionally it may crash.
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UPDATE: Windows 95 components are known to cause more crashes compared
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to the equivalent Windows 3.1 libraries.
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5. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
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The best place to get help or to report bugs is the Usenet newsgroup
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comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. The Wine FAQ is posted there every
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month. Also, you may want to browse old messages on www.dejanews.com
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to check whether your problem is already fixed.
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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@lrc.epfl.ch for inclusion in the next
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release.
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--
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Alexandre Julliard
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julliard@lrc.epfl.ch
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