Winecfg (Wine configuration) (1,620) Initial release 4 July 1993; 25 years ago ( 1993-07-04) 3.0.4 (November 29, 2018; 31 days ago ( 2018-11-29)) 4.0-rc4 (December 28, 2018; 2 days ago ( 2018-12-28)) Written in,,, • • (development) • (experimental),, 21 MB (compressed tar.) Available in English v2.1+ Website Wine ( for Wine Is Not an ) is a that aims to allow ( and ) developed for to run on. Wine also provides a, known as Winelib, against which developers can Windows applications to help them to Unix-like systems. Wine the Windows by translating Windows into -compliant, recreating the of Windows systems, and providing alternative implementations of Windows, system services through wineserver and various other components (such as, the, and ). Wine is predominantly written using reverse-engineering, to avoid issues.

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The name Wine was initially an abbreviation for Windows Emulator. Wine later shifted to the Wine Is Not an Emulator in order to differentiate the software from. No or occurs when running a Windows under Wine.

'Emulation' would refer to of code intended for one (such as ) by software running on a different processor (such as ). While the name sometimes appears in the forms WINE and wine, the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form Wine. Wine is primarily developed for Linux and, and there are (As of November 2018 ) well maintained packages available for both platforms.

In a 2007 survey by desktoplinux.com of 38,500 Linux desktop users, 31.5% of respondents reported using Wine to run Windows applications. This plurality was larger than all programs combined, as well as larger than the 27.9% who reported not running Windows applications. Bob Amstadt, the initial project leader, and Eric Youngdale started the Wine project in 1993 as a way to run Windows applications on. Laptop wont read my passport for mac download. It was inspired by two ' products, the for the operating system, and the, which was an attempt to get the fully reimplemented in the public domain as an standard but rejected due to pressure from in 1996.

Wine originally targeted for, but as of 2010 focuses on and versions which have become the standard on newer operating systems. The project originated in discussions on in in June 1993. Has led the project since 1994. The project has proven time-consuming and difficult for the developers, mostly because of incomplete and incorrect of the Windows API. While Microsoft extensively documents most Win32, some areas such as and have no publicly available specification from Microsoft, and Windows also includes undocumented low-level functions, undocumented behavior and obscure that Wine must duplicate precisely in order to allow some applications to work properly.