Wine (software)

Wine is a piece of software which lets Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 and x86-64 architectures to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows. Wine runs Windows programs without using emulation. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib which developers can compile Windows applications against to help port them to Unix-like systems.[3] Some Wine code is used in ReactOS, a free operating system that is Windows-compatible and is not based on Unix.

Wine
Original author(s)Alexandre Julliard
Developer(s)Wine authors
(1,426 and counting)
Initial releaseJuly 4, 1993 (1993-07-04)
Stable release
8.0.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 20 April 2023 (20 April 2023)
Preview release
8.10[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 9 June 2023 (9 June 2023)
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like systems and Microsoft Windows
PlatformCross-platform
Size19 MB (archived)
Available inEnglish
TypeCompatibility layer
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License
Websitehttps://www.winehq.org

The Wine developers released version 1.0 of Wine, after 15 years of development, on June 17 2008. Wine is free software, released under terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

References
  1. "Wine 8.0.1 Released". 20 April 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  2. "Wine 8.10 Released". 9 June 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  3. "Winelib". Wine HQ. Retrieved 2019-01-22.

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