Wine

Wine

Key Links

WineHQThe Wine project home pageCodeWeaversProduces a commercially supported Wine derivative and works closely with the Wine communityWine Packages for OpenSolarisMake sure you install the SFElibaudioio & SFEfreetype packages as wellBordeaux GroupA commercially supported Wine for OpenSolaris, an active project that makes Wine much more user friendlyWine ReviewsInformation and reviews of Windows applications and games running on WineWine on Solaris (Wine Reviews)Building Wine using the JDS Common Build EnvironmentWine Build Instructions (Doug Scott)Building Wine using the CBE (detailed instructions)

 Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on top of Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Wine re-implements the Windows API and does not use any Microsoft code, however, where necessary it is possible to use native Windows DLLs from your licensed copy of Windows. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes. Wine is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Zoner Photo Studio running under Solaris

Goals

Short term

• Create a vibrant community around Wine on OpenSolaris
• Have well documented methods of building wine on OpenSolaris

Medium term

• Get Wine into the OpenSolaris IPS repository
• Have recent SVR4 packages of Wine for non IPS Solaris’

Long term

• Look at ways Wine can utilise technologies unique to OpenSolaris
• Dtrace providers for Wine

Get involved!

 There is a team of people who are passionate about running Windows Applications on OpenSolaris, we discuss things in the Desktop Community Discussions List if you want to join us. Thanks to the network effect you are even helping us out just by running Wine on OpenSolaris. If you'd like to do even more look at the list below for some suggestions on how you can make a difference and share with other people.

Non Technical

• Use Wine on OpenSolaris
• Blog about your experiences
• Submit RFE's for Wine and OpenSolaris
• Advocate/evangelise

Technical

• Submit bugs - SFE Bug Tracker and bugs.winehq.org
• Write documentation
• Submit patches
• Write code
• Get Wine into IPS - See: Adding Packages to IPS and ARC Handbook
• Create a SVR4 Wine package