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Wine without Windows
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A major goal of Wine is to allow users to run Windows programs without
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having to install Windows on their machine. Wine implements the
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functionality of the main DLL's usually provided with Windows.
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Therefore, once Wine is finished, you will not need to have windows
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installed to use Wine.
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Wine has already made enough progress that it may be possible to run
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your target applications without Windows installed. If you want to try
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it, follow these steps:
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1. Create empty C:\windows, C:\windows\system, C:\windows\Start Menu,
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and C:\windows\Start Menu\Programs directories.
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Do not point Wine to a Windows directory full of old installations
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and a messy registry. (Wine creates a special registry in your home
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directory, in $HOME/.wine/*.reg. Perhaps you have to remove these
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files).
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2. Point [Drive C] in wine.conf or .winerc to where you want C: to be.
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Refer to the Wine man page for more information. Remember to use
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filesystem=win95 !
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3. Use tools/wineinstall to compile Wine and install the default
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registry. Or if you prefer to do it yourself, compile programs/regapi,
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and run: programs/regapi/regapi setValue < winedefault.reg
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4. Run and/or install your applications.
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Because Wine is not yet complete, some programs will work better
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with native Windows DLL's than with Wine's replacements. Wine has been
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designed to make this possible. Here are some tips by Juergen Schmied
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(and others) on how to proceed. This assumes that your C:\windows
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directory in the configuration file does not point to a native Windows
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installation but is in a separate Unix file system. (For instance,
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C:\windows is really /home/ego/wine/drives/c).
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- Run the application with -debugmsg +module,+file to find out
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which files are needed. Copy the required DLL's one by one to the
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C:\windows\system directory. Do not copy KERNEL/KERNEL32, GDI/GDI32,
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or USER/USER32. These implement the core functionality of the
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Windows API, and the Wine internal versions must be used.
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- Edit the [DllOverrides] section of wine.conf or .winerc to specify
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'native' before 'builtin' for the Windows DLL's you want to use.
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For more information about this, see the Wine manpage.
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- Note that some network DLL's are not needed even though Wine is
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looking for them. The Windows MPR.DLL currently does not work; you
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must use the internal implementation.
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- Copy SHELL/SHELL32 and COMDLG/COMDLG32 COMMCTRL/COMCTL32
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only as pairs to your Wine directory (these DLL's are
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"clean" to use). Make sure you have these specified in the
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[DllPairs] section of wine.conf or .winerc.
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- Be consistent: Use only DLL's from the same Windows version
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together.
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- Put regedit.exe in the C:\windows directory (office95 imports
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a *.reg file when it runs with a empty registry, don't know
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about office97).
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- Also add winhelp.exe and winhlp32.exe if you want to be able to browse
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through your programs' help function.
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