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.TH WINE 1 "May 2002" "@PACKAGE_STRING@" "Windows On Unix"
.SH NAME
wine \- run Windows programs on Unix
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "wine " "[wine_options] " "[--] " "program " "[arguments ... ]"
.PP
For instructions on passing arguments to Windows programs, please see the
.B
PROGRAM/ARGUMENTS
section of the man page.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B wine
loads and runs the given program, where the program is a DOS, Windows
3.x, or Win32 executable (x86 binaries only).
.PP
For debugging wine, use
.B winedbg
instead.
.PP
For running CUI executables (Windows console programs), use
.B wineconsole
instead of
.B wine.
This will display all the output in a separate windows (this requires X11 to
run). Not using
.B wineconsole
for CUI programs will only provide very limited console support, and your
program might not function properly.
.PP
.B wine 
currently runs a growing list of applications written for all kinds of
Windows versions >= Win2.0, e.g. Win3.1, Win95/98, NT.
Older, simpler applications work better than newer, more complex ones.
Using Windows ME or Win2000 components with Wine is more problematic than
using none at all or the ones from older Windows versions.
A large percentage of the API has been implemented,
although there are still several major pieces of work left to do.
.SH REQUIREMENTS AND INSTALLATION
Read the README file in the Wine source distribution and the
.BR wine.conf (5)
man page to know what Wine requires and how it is installed from
source.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I --debugmsg [xxx]#name[,[xxx1]#name1]
Turn debugging messages on or off.  
.RS +7
.PP
xxx is optional and can be one of the following: 
.I err, 
.I warn, 
.I fixme, 
or 
.I trace. 
If xxx is not specified, all debugging messages for the specified
channel are turned on.  Each channel will print messages about a particular
component of 
.B wine.  
# can be either + or - to switch the specified channel on or off
respectively.  If there is no
.I xxx
part before it, a leading + can be omitted. Note that spaces are not
allowed anywhere in the string.
.PP
For instance:
.PP
.I --debugmsg warn+all
will turn on all warning messages (recommended for debugging)
.br
.I --debugmsg warn+dll,+heap
will turn on DLL warning messages and all heap messages.  
.br
.I --debugmsg fixme-all,warn+cursor,+relay
will turn off all FIXME messages, turn on cursor warning messages, and turn
on all relay messages (API calls).
.br 
.I --debugmsg +relay
will turn on all relay messages. For more control on including or excluding
functions and dlls from the relay trace look into the [Debug] section
of the wine configuration file.
.PP
For more information on debugging messages, see the
.I Running Wine
chapter of the Wine User Guide.
.RE
.PD 1
.SH PROGRAM/ARGUMENTS
The program name may be specified in DOS format (
.I
C:\(rs\(rsWINDOWS\(rs\(rsSOL.EXE)
or in Unix format (
.I /msdos/windows/sol.exe
).  You may pass arguments to the program being executed by adding them 
to the end of the command line invoking
.B wine
(such as: wine notepad C:\(rs\(rsTEMP\(rs\(rsREADME.TXT).
Note that you need to '\(rs' escape special characters (and spaces) when invoking Wine via
a shell, e.g.
.PP
wine C:\(rs\(rsProgram\(rs Files\(rs\(rsMyPrg\(rs\(rstest.exe
.PP
Command line processing goes as
follows: first 
.B wine
checks whether one or more of the above mentioned 
.B wine 
options have been specified. These
are removed from the command line, which is passed to the windows program. You can use
the parameter 
.I -- 
to indicate that 
.B wine 
should stop command line processing. This is needed in case a windows program understands 
an option that is usually interpreted (and thus removed from the command line) 
by 
.B wine. 
For example, if you want to execute 
.B wine 
with the options 
.I --debugmsg +module
and if 
.B wine 
should run the program 
.I myapp.exe
with the arguments
.I --display 3d somefile
, then you could use the following command line to invoke 
.B wine:
.PP
.I wine --debugmsg +module -- myapp.exe --display 3d somefile
.PP 
Note that in contrast to previous versions of 
.B wine, 
you must not pass 
program name and program option in one argument to 
.B wine. 
To run more
than one windows program, just execute 
.B wine 
once with the name of each program as argument. 
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
.B wine
makes the environment variables of the shell from which
.B wine
is started accessible to the windows/dos processes started. So use the
appropriate syntax for your shell to enter environment variables you need.
.TP 
.I WINEPREFIX
If set, the content of this variable is taken as the name of the directory where
.B wine
stores its data (the default is 
.I $HOME/.wine
). This directory contains also the socket, which is used to communicate with the
.I wineserver.
All 
.B wine
processes using the same 
.B wineserver
(i.e.: same user) share certain things like registry, shared memory,
and config file.
By setting 
.I WINEPREFIX
to different values for different 
.B wine
processes, it is possible to run a number of truly independent 
.B wine
processes. 
.TP
.I WINESERVER
Specifies the path and name of the
.B wineserver
binary. If not set, Wine will try to load
.B @bindir@/wineserver,
and if this doesn't exist it will then look for a file named
"wineserver" in the path and in a few other likely locations.
.TP
.I WINELOADER
Specifies the path and name of the
.B wine
binary to use to launch new Windows processes. If not set, Wine will
try to load
.B @bindir@/wine,
and if this doesn't exist it will then look for a file named "wine" in
the path and in a few other likely locations.
.TP
.I WINEDEBUG
Turns debugging messages on or off. The syntax of the variable is
identical to the syntax of the arguments for the --debugmsg option.
.TP
.I WINEDLLPATH
Specifies the path(s) in which to search for builtin dlls and Winelib
applications. This is a list of directories separated by ":". In
addition to any directory specified in
.I WINEDLLPATH,
Wine will also look in
.B @dlldir@.
.TP
.I WINEDLLOVERRIDES
Defines the override type and load order of dlls used in the loading
process for any dll. The default is set in the configuration
file. There are currently two types of libraries that can be loaded
into a process' address space: Native windows dlls (
.I native
), 
.B wine 
internal dlls (
.I builtin
). The type may be abbreviated with the first letter of the type (
.I n, b
). Each sequence of orders must be separated by commas.
.br
Each dll may have its own specific load order. The load order
determines which version of the dll is attempted to be loaded into the
address space. If the first fails, then the next is tried and so
on. Multiple libraries with the same load order can be separated with
commas. It is also possible to use specify different loadorders for
different libraries by separating the entries by ";".
.br
The load order for a 16-bit dll is always defined by the load order of
the 32-bit dll that contains it (which can be identified by looking at
the symbolic link of the 16-bit .dll.so file). For instance if
ole32.dll is configured as builtin, storage.dll will be loaded as
builtin too, since the 32-bit ole32.dll contains the 16-bit
storage.dll.
.br
Examples:
.RS
.TP
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="comdlg32,shell32=n,b"
.br
Try to load comdlg32 and shell32 as native windows dll first and try
the builtin version if the native load fails.
.TP
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="comdlg32,shell32=n;c:\(rs\(rsfoo\(rs\(rsbar\(rs\(rsbaz=b"
.br
Try to load the libraries comdlg32 and shell32 as native windows dlls. Furthermore, if 
an application request to load c:\(rsfoo\(rsbar\(rsbaz.dll load the builtin library baz. 
.TP
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="comdlg32=b,n;shell32=b;comctl32=n"
.br
Try to load comdlg32 as builtin first and try the native version if
the builtin load fails; load shell32 always as builtin and comctl32
always as native.
.RE
.TP
.I DISPLAY
Specifies the X11 display to use.
.SH CONFIGURATION FILE
.B wine
expects a configuration file (
.I $WINEPREFIX/config
or
.I ~/.wine/config
if WINEPREFIX is not set), which must conform to the format specified
in the
.BR wine.conf (5)
man page. A sample configuration file is documentation/samples/config in the 
.B wine 
source archive.
.SH AUTHORS
.B wine
is available thanks to the work of many developers. For a listing
of the authors, please see the file 
.B AUTHORS
in the top-level directory of the source distribution.
.SH COPYRIGHT
.B wine
can be distributed under the terms of the LGPL license. A copy of the
license is in the file
.B LICENSE
in the top-level directory of the source distribution.
.SH BUGS
.PP
A status report on many applications is available from
.I http://www.winehq.org/Apps.
Please add entries to this list for applications you currently run.
.PP
Bug reports may be posted to Wine Bugzilla
.I http://bugs.winehq.org
If you want to post a bug report, please read the file
.I documentation/bugs.sgml
in the 
.B wine 
source to see what information is necessary
.PP
Problems and suggestions with this manpage please also report to
.I http://bugs.winehq.org
.SH AVAILABILITY
The most recent public version of 
.B wine
can be obtained via FTP from ibiblio.org in the
/pub/Linux/ALPHA/Wine/development directory.  The releases are in the
format 'Wine-yyyymmdd.tar.gz', or 'Wine-yyyymmdd.diff.gz' for the
diff's from the previous release. The same directory holds the
pre-built contents of the documentation in various formats
(wine-doc.xxx.gz).
.PP
The latest snapshot of the code may be obtained via CVS.  For information
on how to do this, please see
.I
http://www.winehq.org/cvs
.PP
WineHQ, the
.B wine
development headquarters, is at
.I http://www.winehq.org/.
This website contains a great deal of information about
.B wine.
.PP
The
.B wine 
newsgroup is 
.I comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
It is used for discussion of various 
.B wine
end user aspects/help.
.PP
For further information about 
.B wine
development, you might want to subscribe to the 
.B wine 
mailing lists at
.I http://www.winehq.org/forums
.SH FILES
.PD 0
.TP
.I @bindir@/wine
The 
.B wine 
program loader.
.TP
.I @bindir@/wineconsole
The 
.B wine 
program loader for CUI (console) applications.
.TP
.I @bindir@/wineserver
The 
.B wine 
server 
.TP 
.I @bindir@/winedbg
The 
.B wine 
debugger
.TP 
.I @bindir@/wineclipsrv
The 
.B wine 
clipboard server
.TP 
.I @dlldir@
Directory containing 
.B wine's
shared libraries 
.TP
.I ~/.wine/config
User-specific configuration file
.TP 
.I ~/.wine
Directory containing user specific data managed by 
.B wine. 

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR wine.conf (5)