Wine

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

• Frequently Asked Questions: If you're having a general problem with Wine, please read the FAQ!

• Wine documentation: If the FAQ didn't help, try reading the manual! 😃

• The Wine Application Database: For help with a particular app, look up its entry in the AppDB.

• Wine Users support forum: For asking questions that you can't find an answer to in the above.

• Known Issues: Check here before you report a bug.

• winetricks: A useful tool for using common workarounds to current deficiencies in Wine.

• macOS: Running Wine on macOS.

About the Wine project

• A brief overview of Wine Features and goals.

• Some short articles about the Importance Of Wine.

• An overview of Wine Project Organization.

• Who's Who in the Wine project, and Acknowledgements for major contributors.

• The history of the Wine project and recent News.

• Information about Wine's Licensing.

Contribute

• User support: Help users by answering questions on the User's Forum or IRC.

• Developers: If you want to help with Wine or build it from source.

• AppDB Maintainers: If you are (or want to become) an AppDB Maintainer.

• Debuggers can help by testing Wine and narrowing down problems, or help triage bugs reported by other users.

• Writers can contribute by documenting the program, maintaining the wiki, and translating various parts of the project.

• Designers can, among other tasks, draw icons for programs, or improve the style and function of the website.

• Wine Development Fund: Please consider making a donation to support the Wine project.

• Public Relations: ways to help spread the word about Wine.

Other useful links

• A list of Commands for all the little tools that come with Wine.

• Third Party Applications and "unofficial" tools that might come in handy.

• Useful Registry Keys and various settings for configuring Wine.

• Instructions for Regression Testing.

• Applications which officially test against Wine as a platform.

More information

• The Wine project Source Code can be downloaded or browsed online.

• You can browse archived discussions or subscribe to the Wine mailing lists.

• Information on development progress and the status of Wine.

• 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.

• View WineHQ site statistics and rough estimates of Wine's Usage Statistics.