Wine Features

Binary Compatibility

• Loads Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Windows 3.x and DOS programs and libraries
• Win32 compatible memory layout, exception handling, threads and processes
• Designed for POSIX compatible operatings systems (eg. Linux and FreeBSD)
• "bug-for-bug" compatibility with Windows

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