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Wine

Key Links

The Wine project home page
Produces a commercially supported Wine derivative and works closely with the Wine community
Make sure you install the SFElibaudioio & SFEfreetype packages as well
A forum to discuss, help and seek help with Wine
Information and reviews of Windows applications and games running on Wine
Building Wine using the JDS Common Build Environment
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
  • Let Codeweavers know that you're interested in a commercially supported wine on OpenSolaris

Technical

For any suggestions revisions or additions to this page please contact che [at] opensolaris dot org