Wine
Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries Emulators Office/Business multimedia Games/Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X POSIX Solaris Linux BSD |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 20 Jun 2008 08:13
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 13 May 2008 03:17
Changes: Bugs were fixed.
- 08 May 2008 13:26
Changes: Automatic updating of the WINEPREFIX directory. Winhelp now uses Richedit as a display engine. Many RichEdit fixes. More improvements to IME support. More quartz fixes. Implementations of many more Gdiplus functions. Many bugfixes.
- 07 Jan 2008 13:43
Changes: Improved graphics tablet support. Support for RPC context handles. Fixes for some longstanding screen depth issues. An implementation of a "My Network Places" shell folder. Many bugfixes.
- 30 Oct 2007 10:44
Changes: Still more fixes for regression test failures. A much more complete cryptnet implementation. WIDL is now able to generate the oleaut32 proxy code. Many bugfixes.
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Recent commentsNew Release
April 4, 2008: Wine 0.9.59 Released
Wine 0.9.59 was released today, with the following main changes:
* Improved support for the .NET framework.
* Better services handling through a separate services.exe process.
* Support for ATI fragment shader.
* Better support for http proxies.
* Window management fixes.
* Pre-compiled fonts are now available in the source tree.
* Lots of bug fixes.
Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.
Blog about Wine
Hello,
I've started a little blog about Wine (http://wine-review.blogspot.com/), and post about the Applications and Games that I have got to run. With what I hope is clear and informative instructions for other to use. There are also allot of screen-shots of each step involved in the install and first run of the App or Game.
Re: Great program worth the effort
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> eventually got Diablo 2, it's expansion,
> the latest patch, and Battle.net
> support, all running, all under the
> latest build of Wine
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Diablo 2?... I'm impressed, last two times I tried wine I ended up frustrated, last time for example I was trying to run an application made in Visual Basic but I had many issues on the way. First I had some missing DLLs I had to search for, then there where the problems with the "registry". After I successfully opened the app It couldn't work well with sockets, it seems it lacked winsock compatibility at the time.
I hope wine evolves into a full win32 loader for Unix/Linux if it hasn't already, Gotta admit I haven't tried again for quite some time.
Mel (http://www.venezolano.web.ve/)
Great Project
I'm really impressed by this project. Being able to run a lot of different Windows programs from inside Linux has helped out quite a lot. Keep up the great work!
v0.9.12
Version 0.9.12 of WINE has been released on April 13, 2006.