Wine Stable 9.0_2
Run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows
| Category: | Productivity |
| Price: | Free |
| Popularity: | Medium |
| Version String: | 9.0_2 (9.0_3) |
| Release Date: | 2024-06-24 |
| Architecture: | Intel & i386 |
| Minimum OS: | macOS 10.15.4 |
| Vendor Name: | WineHQ |
| Homepage: | wiki.winehq.org |
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Version History 9.0_2 (9.0_3)
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Description:
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.
Wine Features
Binary Compatibility
• Loads 64-bit, 32-bit, 16-bit Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10 and Windows 3.x programs and libraries
• Win32 compatible memory layout, exception handling, threads and processes
• Designed for POSIX compatible operatings systems (eg. Linux, macOS and FreeBSD) and Android
• "bug-for-bug" compatibility with Windows
Win32 API support
• Support for DirectX based games and applications (Direct3D support up to DirectX 12)
• Support for OpenGL and Vulkan based games and applications
• DirectShow support with use of GStreamer for codecs
• Direct2D, DirectWrite support
• MMDevice API, XAudio, WinMM, DirectSound audio APIs are supported
• Printing via PostScript driver to the host printing system (usually CUPS)
• Enhanced Metafile (EMF) and Windows Metafile (WMF) driver
• Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows
Allows Windows program to interface with:
• X11-based graphics which allow remote display to any X terminal
• macOS and Android based graphics
• X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) fonts
• Sound devices via ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, Core Audio, 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)
• Video capture devices via v4l2
• HID devices via IOHid (MacOS), evdev (Linux), hidraw (Linux), SDL2
API Coverage and Portability
• 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
