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