Helping Wine

If you are a programmer and know C, then start debugging Wine and help us make it better! If you can't, then you will have to either convince a Wine developer to try and make your program work (there must be a download-able version or demo for that).

You can submit your application to the Wine Application DB and gather tips on ways to get your application to work its best.

You can also submit your application to the CodeWeavers CrossOver Compatibility Center. Where you can pledge/vote toward future support of your favorite application.

We recommend that you try builtin dlls first and report any errors that you may run across to wine-devel or to our Bugzilla. If you report problems they can be verified and fixed by the development team and this helps everyone over the long run by not covering up bugs with the use of native DLLs.

Alternatively, you may be able to get the app working by taking native DLLs from a Microsoft Windows install, and using them (set the dlls to native with winecfg). Not all DLLs can be replaced that way - in particular DirectX cannot be, nor can some core system DLLs like gdi32, user, ntdll, kernel32, etc.

See also: http://www.winehq.org/site/contributing

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