Wine Wiki
Welcome to the official Wine Wiki! This site is a place for developers and users to document and share their experiences. If you are new to Wine, have questions about installation, or want to learn about contributing to the project, a great place to start is Wine HQ. There you will find information about Wine, documentation, development, mailing lists, or just about anything Wine-related. On the other hand, if you want to learn more about other people's plans or experiences, work-in-progress projects, or want to collaborate with others on Wine-related matters, you are at the right place. Please read the WineWikiTips to learn more about this wiki.
ISV Area
If you're a software vendor wondering if you can use Wine to help ship your Windows app on Linux or OtherPlatforms, you'll find some useful tips at "Shipping Your Windows Application for Linux using Wine".
Developer Area
We all have our to-do lists, plans, and ideas on how to improve Wine. It would be nice to give others a heads up on what they are to avoid duplicated work and increase collaboration. Any other developer related bits can go here as well: debugging tips, useful scripts, etc.
Developers Hints: A short guide to navigating through the Wine source and getting started.
HackingTips: Collection of hacking tips & tricks
UsefulRegistryKeys: Wine Registry flags that may be useful
GitWine: How to use the new git version control system instead of CVS
Recommended Packages: Lists of recommended packages for building Wine
Wine on 64bit: Building 32Bit wine on 64Bit
Porting with Winelib: Using winelib to port Windows applications to Linux
TodoList: Top level list of projects for Wine
InterestingPatches: So they don't get lost
SummerOfCode: Collection of ideas for Google's Summer of Code projects
AvailableHardware: for testing (e.g. different GPUs)
Quality Assurance:
BugzillaInfo: Preferred ways of using Bugzilla to get the most out of your wine experience
QA: Ideas about how to improve Wine's quality
Distributions: Information relating to different Distributions
BenchMarks: Wine vs. Windows performance tests
Stuff the gang is working on:
MicrosoftOffice2003: CodeWeavers are leading this effort
MSN Messenger webcam support: Tracks the progress on getting MSN Messenger working under Wine
InstallShield: We will not rest until every installer in the world bends to our will
MacOSX: Wine could help a larger number of users run Windows programs.
We try to get together every year at a Wine conference:
WineConf2006 - September 16th-17th, 2006 in Reading, U.K
WineConf2005 - April 30th-May 1st, 2005 in Stuttgart, Germany
WineConf2004 - January 30th-31st, 2004 in St. Paul, Minnesota
WineConf2002 - March 15th-16th, 2002 in San Diego, California
Developer Pages
(you can create yours, read the instructions for AddingYourToDoList)
Developer Name |
IRC Nick |
|
AlexandreJulliard |
julliard |
|
BrianVincent |
vinn |
|
ChristianCosta |
bad2073 |
|
Chris Morgan |
cmorgan |
|
DanKegel |
? |
|
DavidGümbel |
ganymede |
|
DavidLeeLambert |
davidl |
|
DetlefRiekenberg |
winspool |
|
DimiPaun |
dimi |
|
DmitryTimoshkov |
dmitry |
|
EricPouech |
[ericP] |
|
FrancoisGouget |
fgouget |
|
HenriVerbeet |
stringfellow |
|
JacekCaban |
jacekc |
|
JamesHawkins |
truiken |
|
JamesLiggett |
? |
|
JasonGreen |
Jave27 |
|
JeremyNewman |
laxdragon |
|
JeremyWhite |
jwhite |
|
JonGriffiths |
? |
|
JonathanErnst |
jernst |
|
JuanLang |
jil |
|
KaiBlin |
kblin |
|
KetcheSouth |
Ketche |
|
LionelUlmer |
BBrox |
|
LouisLenders |
qwertymn |
|
MaartenLankhorst |
Vladdy |
|
MarcusMeissner |
_Marcus_ |
|
MichaelStefaniuc |
puk |
|
MikeHearn |
TD |
|
MikeMcCormack |
mike_m |
|
PaulMillar |
? |
|
PaulVriens |
? |
|
PhilCostin |
philcostin |
|
RaphaelJunqueira |
fenix |
|
RobShearman |
playa |
|
RoderickColenbrander |
Thunderbird |
|
SauliusKrasuckas |
s2 |
|
ScottRitchie |
YokoZar |
|
ShacharShemesh |
shachar |
|
StefanDösinger |
stefand |
|
StefanLeichter |
sle85276 |
|
StevenEdwards |
sedwards |
|
ThomasKho |
tkho |
|
TomSpear |
speeddymon |
|
TomWickline |
Tom-W |
|
TonyLambregts |
Tony_Lambregts |
|
TonyPresley |
? |
|
TroyRollo |
TroyRollo |
|
UlrichCzekalla |
ulrichc |
|
VijayKiranKamuju |
infyquest |
|
VincentBeron |
papineau |
|
VitaliyMargolen |
vitamin |
User Area
If you are looking to report a bug, please take a look first at the KnownIssues page, to avoid duplication of frequently reported bugs.
This area aims to fill in gaps missing within Wine's documentation and miscellaneous notes for using Wine. Over time we can cull this info and move it into the appropriate manual. For now we'll include links to existing documentation.
wine-wiki.org: A more user oriented wiki, with a focus on documentation.
AppDB is a great resource if you're trying to make a particular App to work under Wine
FAQ: The official Wine FAQ
Wine documentation: Wine User Guide, Wine Development Guide, Winelib User Guide, man pages
How to install NativeMsi, NativeDcom, NativeMsJava, and NativeMSXML3 might be useful until we complete our own equivalents
Try DownloadLinks if you're trying to find where to download certain applications for use with Wine
User FAQs: More frequently asked questions