Update to reflect recent changes and discussions.
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
(including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix. It
-consists of a program loader which loads and executes an Microsoft
+consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
Windows binary, and a library that implements Windows API calls using
their Unix or X11 equivalents. The library may also be used for
porting Win32 code into native Unix executables.
@@ -12,22 +12,30 @@
that you wrote it.
-2. COMPILATION
+2. REQUIREMENTS
-To compile and run Wine, you must have one of:
+To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
Linux version 2.0.36 or above
FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later
Solaris x86 2.5 or later
-You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
-it are probably available on the ftp site where you got Wine. They can
-also be found on ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites. If you are using
-RedHat, install the xpm and xpm-devel packages.
+Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features
+(specifically LDT sharing) required for properly supporting Win32
+threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get
+consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2.
-On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required. You also need flex and yacc.
-Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are using RedHat,
-install the flex and bison packages.
+You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for
+it are probably available on the FTP site where you got Wine. They can
+also be found on ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites. If you are using
+RedHat, install the xpm and xpm-devel packages. Debian users need
+xpm4.7, xpm4g, and xpm4g-dev 3.4j.
+
+On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required. You also need flex version 2.5
+or later and yacc. Bison will work as a replacement for yacc. If you are
+using RedHat, install the flex and bison packages.
+
+3. COMPILATION
To build Wine, first run "./configure" and then run "make depend; make".
This will build the library "libwine.a" and the program "wine".
@@ -49,7 +57,7 @@
run "make depend; make".
-3. SETUP
+4. SETUP
Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
@@ -66,7 +74,7 @@
See www.winehq.com/config.html for further configuration hints.
-4. RUNNING PROGRAMS
+5. RUNNING PROGRAMS
When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
or a filename only.
@@ -90,7 +98,7 @@
see what information is required.
-5. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
+6. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at http://www.winehq.com/faq.html.
@@ -99,6 +107,9 @@
are available on the wine-patches mailing list; see
http://www.winehq.com/dev.html#ml for more information.
+HOWTO: A pre-release version of the Wine HOWTO is available at
+ http://www.westfalen.de/witch/wine-HOWTO.txt .
+
Usenet: Please browse old messages on http://www.dejanews.com/ to check whether
your problem is already fixed before posting a bug report to the
newsgroup.
