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<!-- *** Wine FAQ *** -->
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<title>Wine FAQ</title>
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<para>
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For technical questions, visit the
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<ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/fom-meta/cache/19.html">
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Wine Troubleshooting Guide</ulink> instead.
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</para>
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<qandaset>
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<qandadiv id="About-this-FAQ"><title>About this FAQ</title>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Who-maintains-this-FAQ">
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<para>Who maintains this FAQ ?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>Dave Gardner maintained it from 1995-1998.</para>
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<para>Douglas Ridgway (ridgway@winehq.com) took it over in 1999.</para>
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<para>Andreas Mohr (amohr@codeweavers.com) converted it to FAQ-O-Matic in 2000.</para>
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<para>Dimitrie O. Paun, Keith Matthews and Thomas Wickline reorganised it in 2002.</para>
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<para>For suggestions/additions/complaints regarding this FAQ, please send an email to
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<ulink url="mailto:wine-faq@winehq.org">wine-faq@winehq.org</ulink></para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="What-is-the-copyright-on-the-FAQ-And">
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<para>What is the copyright on the FAQ ? And how may I use it ?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>The original Wine FAQ, which this FAQ was based on, was copyright © 1995-1998 David Gardner.</para>
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<para>It may be reproduced and modified under the same terms as Wine itself.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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</qandadiv>
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<qandadiv id="General-Questions-about-Wine">
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<title>General Questions about Wine</title>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="What-is-Wine-and-what-is-it-supposed-to">
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<para>What is Wine and what is it supposed to do ?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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Wine is a program which allows the operation of DOS and MS
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Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on UNIX.
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It consists of a program loader, which loads and executes a Windows
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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
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for porting Win32 code into native UNIX executables, often
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without many changes in the source. Wine is free software,
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and its license (contained in the file LICENSE
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in each distribution) is LGPL style.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Is-Wine-an-emulator">
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<para> Is Wine an emulator?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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Fortunately, no. Wine provides low-level binary compatibility,
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but currently only for OSes running on Intel-compatible chips.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Are-here-any-alternatives-to-Wine">
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<para>Are there any alternatives to Wine?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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Yes, there are. You can use VMWare to run a Windows installation
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inside a virtual machine, or use Win4Lin to run a specially
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adapted Windows version on Linux. Both solutions cost money for
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both the software itself and a Windows license.
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</para>
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<para>
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Note that, like Wine, they can only use the hardware platform that
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the target programs were originally compiled for (see below).
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Difference-between-Wine-and-emulators">
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<para>What is the difference between Wine and x86 hardware emulators?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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There are two free x86 hardware emulators:
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<ulink url="http://bochs.sourceforge.net"> bochs</ulink>, and
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<ulink url="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86"> plex86</ulink>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Plex86 is the opensource free-software alternative for VMWare,
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VirtualPC, and other IA-32 on IA-32 "Virtual PC products." It
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can only run on the IA-32 architecture.
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</para>
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<para>
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Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator
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written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation
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of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently,
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bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486 or Pentium CPU. Bochs is capable
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of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux,
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Windows<77> 95, DOS, and recently Windows<77> NT 4.
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</para>
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<para>
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Both are licensed under the GPL. Bochs is older than plex86, seems to be
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easier to install, but plex86 will run faster because plex86 uses a real
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time binary compiler. The drawback of all emulators is that you need a version
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of Windows in order to run Windows.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Why-would-anyone-want-Wine-Windows-suck">
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<para>Why would anyone want Wine? Doesn't Windows suck?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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First Wine is not about running Windows but about running Windows
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applications.
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</para>
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<para>
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So if all your computing needs are fulfilled by native Unix
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applications, then you do not need Wine and should not be using
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it. However, if you depend on one or more of the tens of
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thousands of Windows applications, then Wine is the best way to
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use it without giving up on Unix. Let's look at the alternatives
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to see why:
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</para>
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<para>
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The most obvious alternative is to dual-boot. This is the solution
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that provides the best compatibility. However it requires that you
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acquire a Windows license and then dedicate a good chunk of your
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hard-drive to Windows. But the worst is yet to come. Each time you
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will want to use that application you will have to reboot to
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Windows. This is especially significant if external factors dictate
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when you must use this application (e.g. credit card to process,
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email to retrieve from a Lotus Notes server). Then you will find
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yourself forced to close all your Linux applications just to run
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that one Windows application. You may quickly get tired of this, or
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will find that such a situation is impossible to justify in a
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business environment.
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</para>
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<para>
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The next solution is to install virtual machine emulation software
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such as VMWare, Win4Lin or Plex86. Then you can use windows
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applications without suffering such a big disruption. But it still
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requires that you acquire a Windows license and dedicate as much
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disk space to Windows. Furthermore you will pay for the added
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convenience: if using VMWare or Win4Lin you have to buy another
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license, and more importantly you now have to dedicate a good chunk
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of your computer's memory to the virtual machine. Performance will
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take a significant hit too.
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</para>
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<para>
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Using Wine lets you avoid all of that overhead: Windows license,
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hard-drive space required by Windows, memory and performance hit
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taken by emulated virtual machines. Now you can start your Windows
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application straight from your regular desktop environment, place
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that application's window side by side with native application
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windows, copy/paste from one to the other, and run it all at full speed.
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</para>
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<para>
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It is also a pretty vital part of migrating a large organisation,
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you can't change a 5000 desktop setup overnight without a lot of risk.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Which-one-of-the-different-Wine-packages">
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<para>Which one of the different Wine packages out there is good for me?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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Currently there is a broad selection of different Wine packages/versions:
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><ulink url="http://www.winehq.com">Wine</ulink></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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This is the "standard" source distribution of Wine. Its license is
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LGPL, it can be downloaded for free.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><ulink url="http://rewind.sourceforge.net">ReWine</ulink></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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This is a forked Wine tree that got created when Wine changed its
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license from X11 to the more restrictive LGPL, in order to let
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people continue to maintain an X11 licensed Wine version. Its
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license is X11, it can be downloaded for free.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><ulink url="http://www.transgaming.com">Transgaming's WineX</ulink></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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This is TransGaming's Wine version specially suited for games.
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It includes Direct3D support (thus its DirectX support is much
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more complete than Wine's) and copyprotection support. Its license
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is AFPL, the source distribution can be downloaded for free, but
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the binary pack ages that include copy protection support and good
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support are only for subscribed customers ($5/month).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><ulink url="http://wine.codeweavers.com">Codeweavers' Wine preview</ulink></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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This is a specially packaged and more stable/older version of Wine
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which has a nice setup for easy installation. License X11, free
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download.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><ulink url="http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/">Codeweavers' Crossover Plugin</ulink></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Special Wine installation to be used for running win32 browser
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plugins such as e.g. Quicktime in Linux browsers. Costs $24.95.
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Well worth it (very stable and useful packaging).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><ulink url="http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/">Codeweavers' Crossover Office</ulink></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Wine version with special packaging to make sure almost all
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important Office type programs work pretty well. Costs $54.95.
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Seems to be well worth it so far according to some comments.
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(note: you're supporting a company actively contributing to wine
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if you decide to buy either Plugin or Office.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/download/">Other packaged versions of Wine</ulink></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Various wine packages can be downloaded for free, to be found at
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Wine HQ. They're not officially packaged by Wine HQ, and as such
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may have some configuration inconsistencies.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Whats-the-history-of-Wine">
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<para>What's the history of Wine?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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The Wine project started in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1
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programs on Linux. Bob Amstadt was the original coordinator, but turned
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it over fairly early on to Alexandre Julliard, who has run it ever
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since. A <ulink url="news:comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine">newsgroup</ulink>
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was created in July 1994. Over the years, ports for
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other Unixes have been added, along with support for Win32 as Win32
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applications became popular.
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</para>
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<para>
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For more information, see <ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/about.shtml">
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http://www.winehq.com/about.shtml</ulink>
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="What-is-the-current-version-of-Wine">
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<para>What is the current version of Wine?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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A new version of Wine is distributed about every month. You will be
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able to keep up on all the latest releases by reading the newsgroup
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<ulink url="news:comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine">
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comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine</ulink>, or by visiting the
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<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com">Wine HQ homepage</ulink>. When
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downloading Wine from your FTP site of choice (see
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<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/download.shtml">the Download page</ulink>
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for some of these choices), you can make sure that you are getting
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the latest version by watching the version numbers in the distribution
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filename. For instance, the distribution released on October 31, 2002
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was called Wine-20021031.tar.gz. Patch files are also available. If
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you are current to the previous version, you can download and apply
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just the current patch file rather than the entire new distribution.
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The patch filenames follow the same conventions as the monthly
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distribution. <ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml">
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Read-only CVS</ulink> access is also available.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="What-is-the-current-Status-of-Wine">
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<para>What is the current Status of Wine?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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As of mid 2002, Wine consists of over 1 million lines of C code,
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written by more than 300 developers from dozens of countries around
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the world. Wine is in active use by an estimated 100K people. Wine
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implements more than 90% of the calls in popular Windows
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specifications such as ECMA-234 and Open32.
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</para>
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<para>
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You may also want to look at the
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<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?status">
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Status page</ulink> for a global view on Wine's implementation progress.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="When-will-Wine-be-finished">
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<para>When will Wine be finished?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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Large software projects are never finished, only released. In any
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case Wine is chasing a moving target since every new release of
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Windows contains new API calls or variations to the existing ones.
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</para>
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<para>
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Because Wine is being developed by volunteers, it is difficult to
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predict when it will be ready for general release. But due to the
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much increased interest by companies in porting apps via Wine, Wine
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development is constantly getting more and more active. Right now
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we are working on releasing Wine 0.9 during 2003
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Who-is-responsible-for-Wine">
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<para>Who's responsible for Wine?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. Please see the
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<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/source/AUTHORS">AUTHORS</ulink>
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file in the distribution for the complete list. Some companies that
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are or have been involved with Wine development are Codeweavers,
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TransGaming, Corel, and Macadamian.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="folks-who-contributed-money-or-equipment">
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<para>Who are the folks and organizations who have contributed money or equipment to the Wine project?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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People and organizations who have given generous contributions of
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money, equipment, or licenses, include:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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<listitem>
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<para>David L. Harper</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Bob Hepple</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Mark A. Horton</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Kevin P. Lawton</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The Syntropy Institute</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>James Woulfe</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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VMWare Inc. <ulink url="http://www.vmware.com">
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(http://www.vmware.com)</ulink>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Corel <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com">
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(http://linux.corel.com)</ulink>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="What-undocumented-APIs-are-not-understood">
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<para>What undocumented APIs / interfaces are not understood? Would
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seeing Microsoft source help?
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</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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The best would be if the Windows API was fully documented, so Wine
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could be a perfect "clean-room" implementation. Seeing the source
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code might make it harder to prove that no copyright violations have
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taken place. That said, the documentation is often bad, nonexistent,
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and even misleading where it exists, so a fair amount of reverse
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engineering have been necessary, particularly in the shell (Explorer)
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interface.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Is-TransGamings-last-patch-included-in-Wine">
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<para>Is TransGaming's latest patch included in the standard Wine release?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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No, it's not.
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</para>
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<para>
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TransGaming make money via a subscription service. Thus they
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submitted their DirectDraw and some DirectSound work, but they will
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not submit their OpenGL wrapper based Direct3D support.
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</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="Will-there-be-a-Windows-version-of-Wine">
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<para>Will there be a Windows version of Wine?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>
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Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows.
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</para>
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<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Cygwin <ulink url="http:/www.cygwin.com">
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(http://www.cygwin.com/)</ulink>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Reactos <ulink url="http://www.reactos.com/">
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(http://www.reactos.com/)</ulink>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
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There's some progress, so a Wine version that's usable on Windows
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might be available at some time.
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</para>
|
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</answer>
|
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</qandaentry>
|
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</qandadiv>
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<qandadiv id="What-do-I-need-in-order-to-use-Wine">
|
||
<title>What do I need in order to use Wine?</title>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Under-what-platforms-will-Wine-run">
|
||
<para>
|
||
Under what hardware platform(s) and operating system(s) will
|
||
Wine(Lib) run?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine is being developed specifically to run on the Intel x86 class
|
||
of CPUs under certain UNIXes that run on the x86 platform.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
NetBSD, OpenBSD, Unixware, and SCO OpenServer 5 worked at one time,
|
||
but Wine now requires kernel-level threads which are not currently
|
||
available (or understood by the Wine team) in those platforms.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The Wine development team hopes to attract the interest of other
|
||
commercial UNIX and UNIX clone vendors as well.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
BeOS: porting efforts used to be pretty strong, but BeOS has severe
|
||
limitations in Unix call support, so a port will probably never
|
||
happen.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
FreeBSD: Should work, with limitations in specific areas (mainly
|
||
missing device/hardware support)
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Linux/x86: WORKS. If it doesn't, You may also want to see the
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/fom-meta/cache/19.html">Wine
|
||
Troubleshooting Guide</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="What-minimum-CPU-must-I-have">
|
||
<para>
|
||
What minimum CPU must I have in my computer to be able to run Wine
|
||
and MS Windows applications smoothly?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
We need to differentiate between Wine and Winelib here.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine won't run on any x86 CPU less than an 80386 due to address
|
||
management limitations
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
It is known to also work in the 80486 and upwards compatible CPUs.
|
||
The basic test is, if you can run X11 now, you should be able to run
|
||
Wine and MS Windows applications under it.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
As always, the faster your CPU, the better. Having a math coprocessor
|
||
is unimportant. However, having a graphics accelerated video card
|
||
supported by X will help greatly
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Depending on your application you may find that faster speeds are
|
||
required for sensible use. We can't give specific advice on that due
|
||
to the vast range of applications out there.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-much-disk-space-will-Wine-take">
|
||
<para>
|
||
How much disk space will the Wine source code and binaries take on my
|
||
hard drive?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
You need approximately 250 megabytes of free hard drive space to
|
||
store and compile the source code. Wine also needs about 18 megs in
|
||
your /tmp directory. And about 50 MB are needed to do a make install.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="What-other-software-do-I-need-to-compile">
|
||
<para>
|
||
What other software do I need to have installed to compile and run
|
||
Wine?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Many development tools need to be installed in order to compile Wine.
|
||
A list of required packages for several distributions is included in
|
||
the README <ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/source/README">
|
||
(http://www.winehq.com/source/README)</ulink>.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
To run Wine, you will need the following:
|
||
</para>
|
||
|
||
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>The compiled Wine binary</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>A properly configured wine.conf file (or ~/.winerc file)</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>An installed and working X Window system</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Some Windows programs to test</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-much-RAM-do-I-need">
|
||
<para>
|
||
How much RAM do I need to have on my UNIX system to be able to run
|
||
Wine and MS Windows applications smoothly?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If you can run X smoothly on your UNIX system now, you should be
|
||
able to run Wine and MS Windows applications just fine too, depending
|
||
on how memory hungry the application is.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
A Wine workstation will work with 16 megabytes of RAM and a 16
|
||
megabyte swap partition as long as you have a reasonable graphics
|
||
card. Most applications will run reasonably with 64/64 Mb,
|
||
interactive games are likely to need more. You can run Wine with 8/8,
|
||
but it is going to be unusably slow and very constraining on the
|
||
applications you can run. If you wish to be part of the development
|
||
team and program Wine itself, be aware that the debugger is rather
|
||
memory intensive. Some have suggested that 64 megabytes is the
|
||
minimum RAM needed for Wine development, although some are able to
|
||
work (albeit slowly) with 24 megabytes of physical RAM and lots of
|
||
swap space.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-long-does-Wine-take-to-build">
|
||
<para>How long does Wine take to build</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine is getting to be quite large, and building from scratch takes a
|
||
lot of processing. As of September 2002, compile times were around 20
|
||
minutes on an Athlon 1200 with 640 Mb and 45-50 minutes on a Cyrix
|
||
300 with 64 Mb. If you have a CVS copy, you may not need to rebuild
|
||
the whole thing every time you update.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="I-have-a-Drivespaced-partition">
|
||
<para>
|
||
I have a Drivespaced, Doublespaced or Stackered DOS partition. Can
|
||
Wine run MS Windows binaries located in such a partition?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Yes, but only if the operating system supports mounting those types
|
||
of drives.There is a Linux file system driver called dmsdos that will
|
||
allow read/write access through Doublespaced and Drivespace 1.0
|
||
drives. More specifically, it supports mounting DOS 6.0 and 6.2
|
||
Doublespaced, DOS 6.22 Drivespaced, and Windows 95 Doublespaced
|
||
compressed partitions (read and write access works fine, but write
|
||
access is slow). It can be found at
|
||
<ulink url="ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/">
|
||
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/file systems/dosfs/</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Do-I-need-to-have-a-DOS-partition">
|
||
<para>Do I need to have a DOS partition on my system to use Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
You do not need a licensed and installed copy of DOS or MS Windows to
|
||
install, configure and run Wine. However, Wine has to be able to
|
||
'see' an MS Windows binary (i.e. application) if it is to run it.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Does-MS-Windows-need-to-be-installed">
|
||
<para>
|
||
Does MS Windows need to be loaded into that partition in order to
|
||
run MS Windows programs under Wine?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Many folks have successfully installed and run some small programs
|
||
in their UNIX filesystem without having a DOS partition or MS
|
||
Windows. However, in many cases you need a directory and file
|
||
infrastructure that is similar to an existing Windows installation.
|
||
Some applications' installation programs want to distribute some of
|
||
the package's files into the /windows and /windows/system
|
||
directories in order to run, and unless these exist on your UNIX
|
||
file system, those programs will not install correctly and probably
|
||
will not run well, if at all.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If you have a DOS partition with MS Windows installed in it, make
|
||
sure that your UNIX system can 'see' this partition (check your
|
||
/etc/fstab file or mount the partition manually) so that Wine can
|
||
run the MS Windows binaries located in the DOS partition. To run
|
||
without a DOS partition, you need to set a UNIX path to be your
|
||
drive C, and make sure that the /windows and /windows/system
|
||
directories point to some place that actually exist.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Here's an example, copied from a machine which has no DOS partition
|
||
but successfully runs Wine:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
[Drive C]
|
||
Path=/var/lib/wine
|
||
Type=hd
|
||
Label=MS-DOS
|
||
Filesystem=win95
|
||
[wine]
|
||
Windows=c:\windows
|
||
System=c:\windows\system
|
||
Temp=e:\
|
||
Path=c:\windows;c:\windows\system;c:
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
In <filename>/var/lib/wine/windows</filename>, you will need to
|
||
install a <filename>win.ini</filename> config file that you might
|
||
find on a typical MS Windows 3.1 machine. The directory
|
||
<filename>/var/lib/wine/windows/system</filename> should exist, but
|
||
doesn't need to contain anything. However, to use MS DLLs, you can
|
||
copy them into that directory. Note that this is a contravention of
|
||
the Windows licence unless Windows is properly installed on the
|
||
machine. If you have DOS/MS Windows installed on your system, you can
|
||
mount that partition at bootup by modifying the file
|
||
<filename>/etc/fstab</filename> in your UNIX partition (assuming that
|
||
the UNIX kernel supports the DOS/MS Windows filesystem type).
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If you edit this file by hand, it should contain something similar
|
||
to the following:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
/dev/hda1 /dosc msdos uid=0,gid=100,umask=007 0 0
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
This will allow you to read and write to the DOS partition without
|
||
being root.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="If-Wine-completely-replaces-MS-Windows">
|
||
<para>
|
||
If Wine completely replaces MS Windows, will it duplicate all of the
|
||
functions of MS Windows?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Most of them, yes. However, some applications and applets that come
|
||
with MS Windows, such as File Manager and Calculator, can be
|
||
considered by some to be redundant, since 32-bit UNIX programs that
|
||
duplicate these applets' functions already exist.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Will-I-install-on-ony-UNIX-file-system">
|
||
<para>
|
||
Will I be able to install MS Windows applications in any flavor of a
|
||
UNIX file system?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine is written to be file system independent, so MS Windows
|
||
applications will install and run under virtually any file system
|
||
supported by your brand of UNIX.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Will-Wine-run-only-under-X">
|
||
<para> Will Wine run only under X, or can it run in character mode?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Most of Wine's development effort is geared against MS Windows' GUI,
|
||
but some limited support for character mode has appeared, by setting
|
||
<parameter>GraphicsDriver=ttydrv</parameter> in wine.conf's
|
||
<parameter>[wine]</parameter> section.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine's infrastructure is already somewhat prepared for supporting
|
||
other graphics drivers than x11drv, but no real "alternative"
|
||
graphics driver has been used yet.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Will-Wine-run-under-any-X-window-manager">
|
||
<para>Will Wine run under any X window manager? Does it require a window manager at all?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine is window manager independent, so the X window manager you
|
||
choose to run has (almost) no bearing on your ability to run MS
|
||
Windows programs under Wine. Wine uses standard X libraries, so no
|
||
additional ones are needed. Wine has its own window management,
|
||
which acts like MS Windows. It can be turned off to use the native
|
||
window manager by modifying Managed or Desktop settings as described
|
||
in <command>man wine.conf</command>.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Will-32-bit-applications-run-under-Wine">
|
||
<para>Will 32-bit Windows 95/98 applications run under Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Yes, 32-bit programs are now about as well supported as 16-bit
|
||
programs.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
</qandadiv>
|
||
<qandadiv id="FAQ-Getting-Wine">
|
||
<title>Getting Wine</title>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Where-can-I-get-Wine">
|
||
<para>Where can I get Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Because of lags created by using mirror, word of this newest release
|
||
may reach you before the release is actually available at the ftp
|
||
sites listed here. The sources are available from the following
|
||
locations:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/">
|
||
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/
|
||
</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ALPHA/wine/development/">
|
||
ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ALPHA/wine/development/
|
||
</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/ALPHA/wine/development/">
|
||
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/ALPHA/wine/development/
|
||
</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<ulink url="ftp://orcus.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Wine/development/">
|
||
ftp://orcus.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Wine/development/
|
||
</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
<para>
|
||
It should also be available from any other site that mirrors
|
||
ibiblio.org. For more download locations, see
|
||
<ulink url="http://ftp search.lycos.com.">lycos</ulink> Some of
|
||
these ftp sites may archive previous versions of Wine as well as the
|
||
current one. To determine which is the latest one, look at the
|
||
distribution file name, which will take the form
|
||
Wine-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz. Simply replace YYYYMMDD in the distribution
|
||
file name with the numbers for year, month and date, respectively.
|
||
The latest one is the one to get.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine binary packages are available for several OS'es and
|
||
distributions. See
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/download.shtml">
|
||
the download page</ulink> for the most recent list.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Is-there-a-CVS-tree">
|
||
<para>Is there a CVS tree?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Current Wine sources are also available via anonymous client/server
|
||
CVS. You will need CVS 1.9 or above. If you are coming from behind a
|
||
firewall, you will either need a hole in the firewall for the CVS
|
||
port (2401) or use SOCKS.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
To login to the CVS tree, do
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@cvs.winehq.com/home/wine
|
||
cvs login
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Use "cvs" as the password (without the quotes). Note that
|
||
<filename>/home/wine</filename> is a path on the server, not on your
|
||
machine. To check out the entire Wine source tree (which may be
|
||
slow), use
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
cvs -z 3 checkout wine
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
or if you just want a subtree, or individual file, you can do that
|
||
too with
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
cvs -z 3 checkout wine/ANNOUNCE
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Be aware, though, that getting the entire Wine source tree via CVS
|
||
is pretty slow, especially compared to getting Wine from an FTP
|
||
mirror near you. For a CVS mirror list, see
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Patch files are also available, so that you don't have to download,
|
||
install, and configure the entire distribution each week if you are
|
||
current to the previous release. Patch file release names follow the
|
||
same numbering convention as do the general releases, and take the
|
||
form
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine-YYYYMMDD.diff.gz
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Patch files are available from the same sites that distribute the
|
||
full release. To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file,
|
||
first cd to the top-level directory of the release (the one
|
||
containing the README file), then do a "make clean", and patch the
|
||
release with
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
gunzip -c patch-file | patch -p1
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
where patch-file is the name of the patch file something like
|
||
Wine-YYYYMMDD.diff.gz. You can then re-run ./configure, and then run
|
||
make depend && make
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If you are mirroring the Wine distribution from the tsx-11 site and
|
||
wish to be listed here in this FAQ, please add it to the
|
||
"things to go into the documentation" area.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Can-I-get-Wine-using-cvsup">
|
||
<para>Can I get Wine using cvsup?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The CVS mirrors don't offer cvsup support yet, but the main server
|
||
does. Use a <filename>wine.sup</filename> file of:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
*default host=cvs.winehq.com
|
||
*default base=/cvs
|
||
*default prefix=/cvs/wine
|
||
*default release=wine
|
||
*default delete
|
||
|
||
# If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line.
|
||
#*default compress
|
||
|
||
*default use-rel-suffix
|
||
wine
|
||
</screen>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
</qandadiv>
|
||
|
||
<qandadiv id="Installing-And-Configuring-Wine">
|
||
<title>Installing And Configuring Wine</title>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-do-I-compile-the-Wine-source-code">
|
||
<para>How do I compile the Wine distribution source code?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
See the README (<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/source/README">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com/source/README</ulink>) for instructions.
|
||
Additionally, you may want to set the <parameter>TMPDIR</parameter>
|
||
environment variable <command>TMPDIR=~/tmp</command> or
|
||
<command>TMPDIR=/tmp</command> (if you are root).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-do-I-install-Windows-in-Wine">
|
||
<para>How do I install Windows in Wine under Linux?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Simple answer: you CAN'T. Windows demands direct access to the
|
||
hardware and cannot get it with Wine and UNIX in the way
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine is supposed to be used WITHOUT Windows primarily. If you want
|
||
to use a Windows installation, then use an existing installation
|
||
alongside the UNIX installation (see the dual-boot HOWTO for your OS
|
||
for more details). Or alternatively use the cabextract utility to
|
||
extract Windows install archives to a directory that you want to use
|
||
as Wine's Windows tree.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-do-I-configure-Wine-to-run-on-my-system">
|
||
<para>How do I configure Wine to run on my system?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine requires that you have a config file as
|
||
<filename>~/.wine/config</filename>. The format of this file is
|
||
explained in the <filename>wine.conf</filename> man page. The file
|
||
<filename>documentation/samples/config</filename> (
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/source/documentation/samples/config">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com/source/documentation/samples/config</ulink>)
|
||
contains a config file example. More explicit directions can be
|
||
found in the <filename>README</filename> file (
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/source/README">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com/source/README</ulink>) that will be located in
|
||
the base Wine directory after you gunzip and untar the distribution
|
||
file.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-do-I-upgrade-configuration">
|
||
<para>How do I upgrade Wine without losing my working configuration?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Upgrading the wine installation does not affect the existing wine
|
||
configuration. So after upgrading wine you still have the old (working )
|
||
wine configuration.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="If-I-use-Windows-which-versions-OK">
|
||
<para>If I want to use a Windows install, which versions are OK?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Either use a classic no-windows install (Wine is getter better all
|
||
the time) or use a Win9x install (Win95, 98, 98SE, ME). DON'T
|
||
configure Wine to use an NT-based Windows install (NT, Win2K, WinXP).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="If-I-use-Windows-which-one-works-best">
|
||
<para>If I use a Windows install with Wine, which one works best?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
As of 02/2002:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
I'd say Win98SE is the best version to use with Wine, as it's fairly
|
||
widespread amongst developers and relatively old. Using Win2K files
|
||
is <emphasis>definitely</emphasis> worse than a plain no-windows
|
||
Wine install, and Win ME is said to be problematic, too (as probably
|
||
no developer uses it). In short: all Win9x <= W98SE are good.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Installing-Visual-Basic-apps-wont-run">
|
||
<para>
|
||
Installing applications generated by Visual Basic won't run. What
|
||
should I do?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Make sure you have all the VB runtime libraries installed. You may
|
||
need to use the native dll vbrun60.dll
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="When-I-click-on-exe-file-nothing-happens">
|
||
<para>When I click on *.exe file in my file Manager, nothing happens</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The normal Wine releases don't have .exe extensions registered for
|
||
Wine in KDE/Gnome yet. You have to open a terminal window instead
|
||
(often an icon showing a "black screen") and type something like:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
cd /my/windows/program/directory
|
||
wine myprogram.exe
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Or alternatively you could download the CodeWeavers Wine preview
|
||
which includes .exe extension registration for KDE/Gnome and a nice
|
||
setup program.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="bash-wine-Command-not-found-What-can-I-do">
|
||
<para>bash "wine: Command not found" What can I do?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Try to relogin into bash. That might fix it.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If it doesn't, then make sure the wine binary is in your
|
||
<parameter>PATH</parameter>.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Run as root:
|
||
</Para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
find / -name "wine" -type f -perm +111
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
to find the path where the wine binary is in. Then check whether
|
||
<parameter>PATH</parameter> includes it:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
echo $PATH
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If not, add that e.g. to <filename>/etc/profile</filename> by doing:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/wine/binary
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
That should help.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If you used a package manager (<command>rpm</command> or
|
||
<command>apt</command>) - Verify your packages. The package
|
||
<filename>winesetuptk.rpm</filename> is only a front-end for
|
||
making a meaningfull config file, it DOES NOT install the wine
|
||
package...
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
For complete packages, use <ulink url="http://www.rpmfind.net/">
|
||
www.rpmfind.net</ulink> or the <ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/download/">
|
||
Download</ulink> section.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-do-I-remove-Wine-from-my-Computer">
|
||
<para>How do I remove Wine from my Computer?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
All you have to do is to type:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<screen>
|
||
rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine*
|
||
</screen>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Make sure that you specify the exact path when using the powerful
|
||
<command>rm -fR</command> command. If you are afraid that you might
|
||
delete something important, or might otherwise delete other files
|
||
within your filesystem, <command>cd</command> into each Wine
|
||
subdirectory singly and delete the files found there manually,
|
||
one file or directory at a time.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Neither the Wine developers and programmers, nor the Wine FAQ
|
||
author/maintainer, can be held responsible for your deleting any
|
||
files in your own filesystem.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
</qandadiv>
|
||
|
||
<qandadiv id="About-running-Wine">
|
||
<title>About running Wine</title>
|
||
<para>
|
||
In case of problems when running Wine, You may also want to see the
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/fom-meta/cache/19.html">
|
||
Wine Troubleshooting Guide</ulink>.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-do-I-run-an-MS-Windows-program">
|
||
<para>How do I run an MS Windows program under Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
When invoking Wine, you must specify the entire path to the
|
||
executable, or by filename only. For example to run Windows'
|
||
solitaire, type any of the following:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<command>wine sol</command> or <command>wine sol.exe</command>
|
||
(using the search path to locate the file).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<command>wine c:\\windows\\sol.exe</command>
|
||
(using a DOS filename).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<command>wine /usr/windows/sol.exe</command>
|
||
(using a UNIX filename).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<command>wine "c:\windows\sol.exe"</command>
|
||
(using quoted DOS filename).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The path of the file will also be added to the path when a full name
|
||
is supplied on the command line.
|
||
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Wine-cannot-find-MS-Windows-on-my-drive">
|
||
<para>
|
||
I have installed and configured Wine, but Wine cannot find MS
|
||
Windows on my drive. Where did I go wrong?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If you have a DOS partition, first make sure that you have mounted
|
||
it, either by putting the entry into <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>,
|
||
or by manually mounting it.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Remember too that unless your version of UNIX can see through it, or
|
||
you are running a utility that can see through it, your DOS
|
||
partition must not be located on a Drivespaced, Doublespaced or
|
||
Stackered partition, as neither Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD or Wine can
|
||
natively 'see' files located in these compressed DOS partitions.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Check your path statements in the <filename>wine.conf</filename>
|
||
file. No capital letters may be used in paths, as they are
|
||
automatically converted to lowercase.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Parts-of-my-app-do-not-work-What-is-wrong">
|
||
<para>
|
||
I was able to get various MS Windows programs to run, but parts of
|
||
them do not work. What is wrong?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine is not complete at this time, so some of each programs'
|
||
features may not work. They will in time as more of the MS
|
||
Windows API calls are included in Wine.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Menus-do-not-work-how-can-I-exit">
|
||
<para>
|
||
I have run various MS Windows programs, but since the program menus
|
||
do not work, how can I exit these programs?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Kill the xterm shell window that you called up to run your MS
|
||
Windows program, and the X window that appeared with the program
|
||
will be killed too.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Can-I-use-Wine-with-other-Linux-Distros">
|
||
<para>Can I use Wine with SuSe, Peanut or other Linux Distro's?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
You can use Wine on any sufficiently recent Linux installation. The
|
||
amount of work getting Wine up and running depends on whether there
|
||
are proper packages available or a source compile has to be done.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Does-Wine-work-with-AMD-Processors">
|
||
<para>Does Wine work with AMD Processors?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Yes, it does.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Can-I-launch-Unix-app-from-Windows-app">
|
||
<para> Can I launch a Unix program from a Windows program?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Sure, Wine supports that. Just enter the unix program name wherever
|
||
a program has something that it's supposed to execute,and then it
|
||
should just work.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
</qandadiv>
|
||
|
||
<qandadiv id="Getting-help">
|
||
<title>Getting help</title>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Is-there-any-documentation-for-Wine">
|
||
<para>Is there any documentation for Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Yes, see <ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/support.shtml">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml.</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="I-have-written-some-documententation">
|
||
<para>
|
||
I couldn't find the answer to my question in the documentation, but
|
||
I've written a document explaining how to solve it. What should I do?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Updates and additions to the Wine documentation directory should be
|
||
sent to the wine-patches mailing list at
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml</ulink>. Website and FAQ
|
||
additions should be added to the appropriate Wine Knowledgebase
|
||
directory.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Is-there-a-Usenet-newsgroup-for-Wine">
|
||
<para>Is there a Usenet newsgroup for Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Yes, and it's called
|
||
<ulink url="news:comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine">
|
||
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine</ulink>. The newsgroup serves as a
|
||
place for users and developers to discuss Wine, and for minor
|
||
announcements for the general public. Major announcements will be
|
||
crossposted to other appropriate newsgroups, such as the following:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<ulink url="news:comp.os.linux.announce">
|
||
comp.os.linux.announce</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<ulink url="news:ccomp.windows.x.announce">
|
||
comp.windows.x.announce</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<ulink url="news:ccomp.emulators.announce">
|
||
comp.emulators.announce</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If your Usenet site does not carry these newsgroups, please urge
|
||
your ISP's sysadmin to add and/or uplink them.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Is-there-a-World-Wide-Web-site-for-Wine">
|
||
<para>Is there a World Wide Web site for Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine HQ (<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com</ulink>) is the official site.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Is-there-an-IRC-channel-for-Wine">
|
||
<para>Is there an IRC channel for Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Sure. It's channel <filename>#WineHQ</filename> on
|
||
<filename>irc.freenode.net</filename> see
|
||
(<ulink url="http://freenode.net">
|
||
http://freenode.net</ulink>). Usually several
|
||
Wine developers hang out there just to help YOU ;-)
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="I-think-I-found-a-bug-How-do-I-report-it">
|
||
<para>
|
||
I think I've found a bug. How do I report this bug to the Wine
|
||
programming team?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Bug reports should be submitted to our online Bugzilla system
|
||
(<ulink url="http://bugs.winehq.com">
|
||
http://bugs.winehq.com/</ulink>). You should include at least the
|
||
following:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The Wine version tested
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The MS Windows program name and, if possible, the version number
|
||
of the software tested
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
A brief description of the bug
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The relevant part(s) of the output of the Wine debugger
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
A screenshot of the visual problem, if applicable
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
|
||
For more information about reporting bugs please see the
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/Docs/wine-user/bug-reporting.shtml">
|
||
How to report a bug</ulink> section of the Wine Users Guide.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
</qandadiv>
|
||
|
||
<qandadiv id="Helping-Wine-or-becoming-a-Wine-developer">
|
||
<title>Helping Wine or becoming a Wine developer</title>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-do-I-become-a-Wine-developer">
|
||
<para>How do I become a Wine developer? What do I need to know?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
If you can program C, that's a good start. Download the sources via
|
||
CVS, subscribe to the mailing lists, look around the source, and pay
|
||
attention to the comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine newsgroup and the
|
||
mailing lists (<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml</ulink>). See if there's anything
|
||
that you think you can fix or work on. You won't have much trouble
|
||
finding areas that need work in Wine (grep for FIXMEs in the source).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-can-I-contribute-to-the-Wine-project">
|
||
<para>How can I help contribute to the Wine project, and in what way(s)?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
You can contribute programming or documentation skills, or monetary
|
||
or equipment donations, to aid the Wine developers in reaching their
|
||
goals.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
For a list of ideas of how you can help, please consult the
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?contrib">
|
||
Wine contrib page</ulink>.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="I-want-to-help-beta-test-Wine">
|
||
<para>I want to help beta test Wine. How can I do this?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine still consists of some Alpha code at this time. However, anyone
|
||
is welcome to download the latest version, and try it out at any
|
||
time.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="I-wrote-some-code-I-would-like-to-submit">
|
||
<para>
|
||
I have written some code that I would like to submit to the Wine
|
||
project. How do I go about doing this?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Patches are greatly appreciated and should be submitted to the
|
||
wine-patches mailing list
|
||
(<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml">
|
||
http://www.winehq.com/dev.shtml#ml</ulink>). Also see this page for
|
||
a description of what happens to submitted patches.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
</qandadiv>
|
||
|
||
<qandadiv id="Developing-programs-using-Wine-WineLib">
|
||
<title>Developing programs using Wine/WineLib</title>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Can-I-use-Wine-to-port-Win32-sources-to-Unix">
|
||
<para>Can I use Wine to port my Win32 sources to Unix?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
That is the idea of Winelib. Right now you may still have some
|
||
difficulties, but this is changing all the time. Read the
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/Docs/winelib-user/">
|
||
Winelib User's Guide</ulink> for info.
|
||
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Will-MFC-work-with-Wine-What-do-I-need-to-do">
|
||
<para>Will MFC work with Wine? What do I need to do?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Wine is not implementing an MFC replacement nor does it intend to.
|
||
However it is possible (with a lot of work) to compile the MFC from
|
||
source and thus produce an <filename>mfc42.dll.so</filename> library.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Please refer to the
|
||
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/Docs/winelib-user/">
|
||
Winelib User's Guide</ulink> for how to do this.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Are-there-commercial-apps-ported-using-Wine">
|
||
<para>
|
||
Are there any commercial applications which have been ported
|
||
using Wine?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
A few examples of applications using Winelib:
|
||
</para>
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Corel's WordPerfect Office Suite
|
||
(<ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/products/wpo2000_linux/index.htm">
|
||
http://linux.corel.com/products/wpo2000_linux/index.htm</ulink>)
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Ability Office
|
||
(<ulink url="http://www.ability.com/linux/abilitylinux.php">
|
||
http://www.ability.com/linux/abilitylinux.php</ulink>)
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
IBM's Websphere
|
||
(<ulink url="http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/dl/swws/swwsgddb-p">
|
||
http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/dl/swws/swwsgddb-p</ulink>)
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Many other important applications have already been ported. (we are
|
||
speaking of several top 500 applications here)
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-can-I-detect-Wine">
|
||
<para>How can I detect Wine?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
You really shouldn't want to do this. If there's a quirk in Wine
|
||
you need to work around, it's much better to fix it in Wine (after
|
||
all you're a developer, so you should be able to gather enough help
|
||
and knowledge to fix it for real).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
|
||
</qandadiv>
|
||
|
||
<qandadiv id="Wine-HQ-issues">
|
||
<title>Wine HQ issues</title>
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="Why-are-the-maillists-set-to-reply-to-author">
|
||
<para>
|
||
Why are the maillists set to reply to author, not to mailing list?
|
||
</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
There are very valid reasons for doing so.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
<qandaentry>
|
||
<question id="How-to-unsubscribe-from-the-mailing-lists">
|
||
<para>How to unsubscribe from the mailing lists?</para>
|
||
</question>
|
||
<answer>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Please see: <ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/development/#ml">
|
||
http://www.winehq.org/development/#ml</ulink>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</answer>
|
||
</qandaentry>
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
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