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WINE(1)				Windows	On Unix			       WINE(1)

NAME
       wine - run Windows programs on Unix

SYNOPSIS
       wine program [arguments]
       wine --help
       wine --version

       For  instructions  on passing arguments to Windows programs, please see
       the PROGRAM/ARGUMENTS section of	the man	page.

DESCRIPTION
       wine loads and runs the given program, which can	be a DOS, Windows 3.x,
       Win32 or	Win64 executable (on 64-bit systems).

       For debugging wine, use winedbg instead.

       For running CUI executables (Windows console programs), use wineconsole
       instead of wine.	 This will display the output in  a  separate  window.
       Not  using  wineconsole for CUI programs	will only provide very limited
       console support,	and your program might not function properly.

       When invoked with --help	or --version as	the only argument,  wine  will
       simply print a small help message or its	version	respectively and exit.

PROGRAM/ARGUMENTS
       The  program name may be	specified in DOS format	(C:\\WINDOWS\\SOL.EXE)
       or in Unix format (/msdos/windows/sol.exe).  You	may pass arguments  to
       the  program  being  executed  by adding	them to	the end	of the command
       line invoking wine (such	as: wine notepad C:\\TEMP\\README.TXT).	  Note
       that you	need to	'\' escape special characters (and spaces) when	invok-
       ing Wine	via a shell, e.g.

       wine C:\\Program\ Files\\MyPrg\\test.exe

       It  can	also  be  one of the Windows executables shipped with Wine, in
       which case specifying the full path is not  mandatory,  e.g.  wine  ex-
       plorer or wine notepad.

ENVIRONMENT
       wine  makes  the	 environment  variables	 of the	shell from which it is
       started accessible to the Windows/DOS processes started.	So use the ap-
       propriate syntax	for your shell	to  enter  environment	variables  you
       need.

       WINEPREFIX
	      If  set,	the  contents of this variable is taken	as the name of
	      the directory  where  Wine  stores  its  data  (the  default  is
	      $HOME/.wine).   This  directory  is  also	 used  to identify the
	      socket which is used to communicate with	the  wineserver.   All
	      wine processes using the same wineserver (i.e.: same user) share
	      certain  things  like  registry, shared memory, and config file.
	      By setting WINEPREFIX to different  values  for  different  wine
	      processes,  it  is possible to run a number of truly independent
	      wine processes.

       WINESERVER
	      Specifies	the path and name of the  wineserver  binary.  If  not
	      set,  Wine  will	look for a file	named "wineserver" in the path
	      and in a few other likely	locations.

       WINEDEBUG
	      Turns debugging messages on or off. The syntax of	 the  variable
	      is of the	form [class][+|-]channel[,[class2][+|-]channel2]

	      class  is	 optional  and can be one of the following: err, warn,
	      fixme, or	trace.	If class is not	specified, all debugging  mes-
	      sages  for  the  specified  channel are turned on.  Each channel
	      will print messages about	a particular component of  Wine.   The
	      following	character can be either	+ or - to switch the specified
	      channel  on  or off respectively.	 If there is no	class part be-
	      fore it, a leading + can be omitted. Note	that  spaces  are  not
	      allowed anywhere in the string.

	      Examples:

	      WINEDEBUG=warn+all
		     will turn on all warning messages (recommended for	debug-
		     ging).

	      WINEDEBUG=warn+dll,+heap
		     will turn on DLL warning messages and all heap messages.

	      WINEDEBUG=fixme-all,warn+cursor,+relay
		     will  turn	off all	FIXME messages,	turn on	cursor warning
		     messages, and turn	on all relay messages (API calls).

	      WINEDEBUG=relay
		     will turn on all relay messages. For more control on  in-
		     cluding  or  excluding  functions and dlls	from the relay
		     trace, look into the  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\De-
		     bug registry key.

	      For more information on debugging	messages, see the Running Wine
	      chapter of the Wine User Guide.

       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 WINEDLLPATH, Wine
	      will also	look in	the installation directory.

       WINEDLLOVERRIDES
	      Defines the override type	and load order of  dlls	 used  in  the
	      loading  process	for  any dll. There are	currently two types of
	      libraries	that can be loaded into	a process address  space:  na-
	      tive  windows  dlls  (native)  and Wine internal dlls (builtin).
	      The type may be abbreviated with the first letter	of the type (n
	      or b).  The library may also be disabled (''). Each sequence  of
	      orders must be separated by commas.

	      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 ";".

	      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 identi-
	      fied by looking at the  symbolic	link  of  the  16-bit  .dll.so
	      file). For instance if ole32.dll is configured as	builtin, stor-
	      age.dll  will  be	 loaded	 as  builtin  too,  since  the	32-bit
	      ole32.dll	contains the 16-bit storage.dll.

	      Examples:

	      WINEDLLOVERRIDES="comdlg32,shell32=n,b"
		     Try to load comdlg32 and shell32 as  native  windows  dll
		     first  and	 try  the  builtin  version if the native load
		     fails.

	      WINEDLLOVERRIDES="comdlg32,shell32=n;c:\\foo\\bar\\baz=b"
		     Try to load the libraries comdlg32	and shell32 as	native
		     windows  dlls.  Furthermore, if an	application request to
		     load c:\foo\bar\baz.dll load the builtin library baz.

	      WINEDLLOVERRIDES="comdlg32=b,n;shell32=b;comctl32=n;oleaut32="
		     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; oleaut32 will be
		     disabled.

       WINEPATH
	      Specifies	additional path(s) to be prepended to the default Win-
	      dows PATH	environment variable. This is a	list of	 Windows-style
	      directories separated by ";".

	      For  a  permanent	 alternative, edit (create if needed) the PATH
	      value under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment registry key.

       WINEARCH
	      Specifies	the Windows architecture to support. It	can be set  to
	      win32 (support only 32-bit applications),	to win64 (support both
	      64-bit  applications  and	 32-bit	 ones),	 or  to	wow64 (support
	      64-bit applications and 32-bit ones, using a 64-bit host process
	      in all cases).
	      The architecture supported by a given Wine prefix	is set at pre-
	      fix creation time	and cannot be changed afterwards. When running
	      with an existing prefix, Wine will refuse	to start  if  WINEARCH
	      doesn't match the	prefix architecture. It	is possible however to
	      switch  freely  between  win64 and wow64 with an existing	64-bit
	      prefix.

       WINE_D3D_CONFIG
	      Specifies	Direct3D configuration options.	It can be used instead
	      of modifying the	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D  reg-
	      istry  key. The value is a comma-	or semicolon-separated list of
	      key-value	pairs.
	      For example:

	      WINE_D3D_CONFIG="renderer=vulkan;VideoPciVendorID=0xc0de"

	      If an individual setting is specified in	both  the  environment
	      variable and the registry, the former takes precedence.

       DISPLAY
	      Specifies	the X11	display	to use.

       OSS sound driver	configuration variables:

       AUDIODEV
	      Set the device for audio input / output. Default /dev/dsp.

       MIXERDEV
	      Set the device for mixer controls. Default /dev/mixer.

       MIDIDEV
	      Set the MIDI (sequencer) device. Default /dev/sequencer.

FILES
       wine   The Wine program loader.

       wineconsole
	      The Wine program loader for CUI (console)	applications.

       wineserver
	      The Wine server

       winedbg
	      The Wine debugger

       $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices
	      Directory	 containing the	DOS device mappings. Each file in that
	      directory	is a symlink to	the Unix device	 file  implementing  a
	      given  device.  For  instance,  if  COM1 is mapped to /dev/ttyS0
	      you'd have a symlink of the form $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/com1  ->
	      /dev/ttyS0.
	      DOS  drives  are	also  specified	with symlinks; for instance if
	      drive D: corresponds to the CDROM	mounted	at  /mnt/cdrom,	 you'd
	      have a symlink $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/d: -> /mnt/cdrom. The Unix
	      device  corresponding  to	 a DOS drive can be specified the same
	      way, except with '::' instead of ':'. So for the previous	 exam-
	      ple,  if	the  CDROM device is mounted from /dev/hdc, the	corre-
	      sponding	symlink	  would	  be   $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/d::   ->
	      /dev/hdc.

AUTHORS
       Wine  is	available thanks to the	work of	many developers. For a listing
       of the authors, please see the file AUTHORS in the top-level  directory
       of the source distribution.

COPYRIGHT
       Wine  can be distributed	under the terms	of the LGPL license. A copy of
       the license is in the file COPYING.LIB in the  top-level	 directory  of
       the source distribution.

BUGS
       A  status report	on many	applications is	available from the Wine	Appli-
       cation Database <https://appdb.winehq.org>.  Please add entries to this
       list for	applications you currently run,	if necessary.

       Bugs can	be reported on the Wine	bug tracker <https://bugs.winehq.org>.

AVAILABILITY
       The most	recent public version of wine is available through WineHQ, the
       Wine development	headquarters <https://www.winehq.org/>.

SEE ALSO
       wineserver(1), winedbg(1),
       Wine documentation and support <https://www.winehq.org/help>.

Wine 10.15			   July	2013			       WINE(1)

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