Friday, June 27, 2008

Wine 1.1.0

wine.gifWine is a project to allow a PC running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to run x86 programs for Microsoft Windows. Alternately, those wishing to port a Windows application to a Unix-like system can compile it against the Wine libraries.

Graphics

  • X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal
  • X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts
  • DirectX support for games (limited Direct3D support)
  • Support for OpenGL based games and applications
  • Printing via PostScript driver or legacy native Win16 printer drivers
  • Enhanced Metafile (EMF) and Windows Metafile (WMF) driver
  • Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows
  • Windows MultiMedia (WinMM) layer support with builtin codecs

Allows Windows program to interface with:

  • Sound devices via ALSA, OSS, ARTS, JACK, and libaudio etc
  • Multi-lingual keyboards and CJK input method support via XIM
  • Modems, serial devices
  • Networks (TCP/IP and IPX)
  • ASPI Scanners
  • Windows Tablets via XInput (eg. Wacom)

Wine API

  • Designed for source and binary compatibility with Win32 code
  • Win32 API test suite to ensure compatibility
  • Compilable on a wide range of C compilers
  • Permits mixing of Win32 and POSIX code
  • Permits mixing of ELF (.so) and PE (.dll/.exe) binaries in one address space
  • Win32 compatible header files
  • Automatically generated API documentation
  • Resource compiler
  • Message compiler
  • IDL compiler
  • Extensive Unicode support
  • Internationalization — Wine supports 16 languages
  • Built-in debugger and configurable trace messages
  • External memory checker support using Valgrind
  • Sample programs

Download: Wine 1.1.0 (13.3 MB)

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