Wine (software)

Wine
Original author(s)Bob Amstadt, Eric Youngdale
Developer(s)Wine authors[1]
(1,755)
Initial release4 July 1993; 31 years ago (1993-07-04)
Stable release
9.0[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 16 January 2024
Repositorygitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine
Written inC
Operating system
PlatformIA-32, x86-64, ARM
Available inMultilingual
TypeCompatibility layer
LicenseLGPL-2.1-or-later[5][6]
Websitewinehq.org

Wine[a] is a free and open-source compatibility layer to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Developers can compile Windows applications against WineLib to help port them to Unix-like systems. Wine is predominantly written using black-box testing reverse-engineering, to avoid copyright issues. No code emulation or virtualization occurs. Wine is primarily developed for Linux and macOS.

In a 2007 survey by desktoplinux.com of 38,500 Linux desktop users, 31.5% of respondents reported using Wine to run Windows applications.[8] This plurality was larger than all x86 virtualization programs combined, and larger than the 27.9% who reported not running Windows applications.[9]

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  4. ^ "Index of /Wine-builds/Android". Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Licensing - WineHQ Wiki". WineHQ. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  6. ^ "License". WineHQ. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  7. ^ "WineHQ - About Wine". WineHQ. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  8. ^ "2007 Desktop Linux Market survey". 21 August 2007. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2007.
  9. ^ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (22 August 2007). "Running Windows applications on Linux". 2007 Desktop Linux Survey results. DesktopLinux. Archived from the original on 11 February 2010.


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