Wine

Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

Wine is both an emulator and a compatibility layer. It duplicates functions of a Windows computer by providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that Windows programs call, and a process to substitute for the Windows NT kernel. This method of duplication differs from other methods that might also be considered emulation, where Windows programs run in a virtual machine. Wine is predominantly written using Black-box testing reverse-engineering, to avoid copyright issues.

The name Wine initially was an acronym for WINdows Emulator. Its meaning later shifted to the recursive backronym, Wine Is Not an Emulator in order to differentiate the software from other emulators

• Project Homepage [EN]
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• Wine [EN] @ Fedora Package
• Wine [EN] @ Homebrew Cask

• Wine [EN] @ Wikipedia
• Wine [DE] @ Wikipedia

Documentation

• User Guide [EN]

• Installing Wine on Mac OS X [EN] @ David Baumgold

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