Over time, there have been a variety of Third Party Applications that have attempted to make Wine more useful or easier to use.

It is important to understand that although these third party applications may make Wine more usable, they are not supported by the Wine project. If you have questions regarding the use of a third party application, please use the support mediums provided by that third party rather than Wine HQ.

Why Third Party Applications Exist

Users want to run applications and sometimes a change to Wine can cause an application to work, but this change cannot be incorporated into Wine for some reason. For example, the change may break Wine for other applications and/or platforms. As such changes to Wine must meet some level of QA. If the change is a dirty hack to Wine's source code that allows a CodeWeavers-supported application to run, then the change may end up within Crossover Office.

In theory, any third party application here is essentially a temporary workaround until underlying bugs in Wine can be fixed properly. As wine improves, parts or all of these third party applications may become obsolete or incompatible with Wine (at least until the third party provides a suitable update).

Current Third Party Applications

The applications below should work with the latest Wine and are still being maintained.

• PlayOnLinux

  • is a tool for installing a lot of Windows game on linux. Like : Steam, WorldOfWarcraft, Guild Wars, and more.

• winetricks

  • is a tool for installing various redistributable runtimes. E.g. mono, dcom98, fonts...

• WineDoors

  • installs and configures Wine, as well as many Windows programs.

• WineBot

  • Windows application installer automation tool for Wine unix environment.

• WineXS

  • is a GUI for Wine.

Obsolete Third Party Applications

These applications are no longer useful, unmaintained, and do not work with current Wine releases. You should not use these.

• Winetools

  • provided a menu driven installer for around 90 windows applications. No longer being maintained.

• Winesetuptk : (Windows Emulator (Configuration and Setup Tool))

  • This was a Wine setup tool provided by CodeWeavers, Inc. Wine can now setup its own environment automatically (or manually using wineprefixcreate), and winecfg has now replaced the other limited configuration that winesetuptk allowed.

• XWine

  • was a graphical user interface for the WINE emulator. It provided an interface for configuring and running MS-Windows applications. It is no longer useful now.