about wine

digiview · 01-03-2001, 03:38 PM

i keep finding wine files in some of my cds.i know about the emulator,are those files the actuall emulator and if i were to install the emulator what will happen and what will be my limitations?

jeremy · 01-07-2001, 02:16 PM

WINE is not an emulator. From the WINE website:

Quote:

Wine is a program which allows the operation of DOS and MS Windows programs
(Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on UNIX.
It consists of a program loader, which loads and executes a Windows binary,
and a library that implements Windows API calls using their UNIX or X11
equivalents. The library may also be used for porting Win32 code into native
UNIX executables.

There is a list of apps that WINE can run available here - http://www.winehq.com/Apps/

CragStar · 01-08-2001, 03:19 PM

I know this is completely off the thread (well almost!) but I didn't realise that WINE was so useful at porting Win32 stuff across. There seem to be loads of things which will work.

Now the questions is has anybody managed to get M$ applications, or windoze apps to actually work on their Linux box? I would love to know what are the successes and failures, and what about the speed of the apps?

The thing is, although I think that Linux 'proper' software is better (ie things which you write with, spreadsheets etc..) I do like to play my computer games! And I am seriously considering porting the games that I have in win to Linux using WINE.

mjakob · 02-06-2001, 05:31 PM

I did go to the trouble of setting wine up once. You have to actually create a windows directory to hold some of the DLLs and things. I managed to get simple stuff like solitare and what not to work without a problem. Worked great. I didn't have much luck with the more involved apps. From what I've read, the easiest way to set things up is to set up a machine with a dual boot. Linux on one side, and windows on a FAT16 partition on the other side. Fire up windows and install the app. Then, fire up linux, mount the widows partition and run the app via WINE. Sounds like a lot of work to me.

Jasutinsama · 02-07-2001, 11:28 AM

Sorry to go even further off track but which is a better option? Should I use something like wine or hopefully someday Free M Ware or just use a virtual PC emulation program like VMWare or Win4Lin?

I remember awhile ago that Jeremy said he was using VMWare(I think). I was thinking about pciking up a copy of that so I can use Linux at work. My boss says I can use Linux at work as long as I can do everything I do in Windows in Linux. Should I get VMWare to emulate the office programs, use something like wine to use the windows programs or just use something like KOffice or StarOffice. I think he would prefer me to use M$ Office just to keep things compatible and I know some of the Linux native programs are compatible with M$ but the formatting doesnt always work perfect.

Let me know what you guys think I should do to port myself to Linux at work.