Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.
Most popular links
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Frequently Asked Questions: If you're having a general problem with Wine, please read the FAQ!
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Wine documentation: If the FAQ didn't help, try reading the manual!
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The Wine Application Database: For help with a particular app, look up its entry in the AppDB.
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Wine Users support forum: For asking questions that you can't find an answer to in the above.
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Known Issues: Check here before you report a bug.
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winetricks: A useful tool for using common workarounds to current deficiencies in Wine.
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macOS: Running Wine on macOS.
About the Wine project
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A brief overview of Wine Features and goals.
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Some short articles about the Importance Of Wine.
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An overview of Wine Project Organization.
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Who's Who in the Wine project, and Acknowledgements for major contributors.
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The history of the Wine project and recent News.
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Information about Wine's Licensing.
Contribute
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User support: Help users by answering questions on the User's Forum or IRC.
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Developers: If you want to help with Wine or build it from source.
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AppDB Maintainers: If you are (or want to become) an AppDB Maintainer.
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Debuggers can help by testing Wine and narrowing down problems, or help triage bugs reported by other users.
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Writers can contribute by documenting the program, maintaining the wiki, and translating various parts of the project.
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Designers can, among other tasks, draw icons for programs, or improve the style and function of the website.
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Wine Development Fund: Please consider making a donation to support the Wine project.
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Public Relations: ways to help spread the word about Wine.
Other useful links
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A list of Commands for all the little tools that come with Wine.
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Third Party Applications and "unofficial" tools that might come in handy.
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Useful Registry Keys and various settings for configuring Wine.
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Instructions for Regression Testing.
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Applications which officially test against Wine as a platform.
More information
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The Wine project Source Code can be downloaded or browsed online.
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You can browse archived discussions or subscribe to the Wine mailing lists.
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Information on development progress and the status of Wine.
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Assorted files such as site icons and images, and database dumps of Bugzilla, AppDB, and the wiki can be downloaded from WineHQ's download server.
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View WineHQ site statistics and rough estimates of Wine's Usage Statistics.