The Wine Project

The word Wine stands for WINdows Emulator. It is both a program loader and an emulation library that will allow Unix users to run MS Windows applications in a Unix environment. The program loader will load and execute an MS Windows application binary, while the emulation library will take calls to MS Windows functions and translate these into calls to Unix/X, so that equivalent functionality is achieved.

MS Windows binaries will run directly; there will be no need for machine level emulation of the program's instructions. Sun has reported better performance with their version of WABI than is actually achieved under MS Windows, so theoretically the same result is possible under Wine.

Wine is currently being developed mainly on the Linux operating system, but is also being tested with NetBSD and FreeBSD.

Contact the project at:

      The Wine Project

      WWW:	http://www.linpro.no/wine/