brunodev85/wine
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine.git synced 2025-08-28 10:13:55 +02:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity
Page: Wine Features
Pages
256 Color Mode 3D Driver Issues AFD AMD64 ARM ARM64 ARM64EC Toolchain Acknowledgements Android Apps That Support Wine Bottling Standards Bug Triage Bugs Building Biarch Wine On Ubuntu Building Wine Buildroot CentOS RHEL Clang Clean Room Guidelines Cmd Conformance Tests Code Coverage Code Hygiene Code In Commands Compatibility Conformance Tests Copy Protection Create Fonts Create Icons Cygwin and More DOSBox Debian Ubuntu Debug Channels Debugging Hints Designers Developer FAQ Developer Hints Developers DirectDraw DirectPlay Games DirectX D3DX9 Disassembly Distributed build with icecream Distrobox development environment Documentation Download Emulation FAQ Fedora Forum Posting Guidelines Forums FreeBSD Gcc Gecko Git Wine Tutorial Guest Unit Tests Haiku Hardware Hurd IRC Importance of Wine Known Issues Licensing MIDI MacOS Building MacOS FAQ MacOS Mageia Make Test Failures Man Pages Multiarch News OpenSUSE Ospp Summer Code Outreachy Packaging Performance Pop! os Portable Wine Preloader Page Zero Problem Previous Summers of Code Project Organization Public Relations Regression Testing Reverse Regression Testing Sound Source Code Source Tree Structure Stable Rules Static Analysis Submitting Patches Summer Of Code Third Party Applications Translating Uniscribe Usage Statistics Useful Registry Keys Vim Tips Web Design Tasks Who's Who Wine Developer's Guide Wine Features Wine History Wine ICU Wine Installation and Configuration Wine Mono Wine Status Wine TestBot VMs Wine TestBot Wine User's Guide Wine and Valgrind WineConf WineGUI Winelib User's Guide Winelib Winetricks Winezeug Writers home
3 Wine Features
Alexandre Julliard edited this page 2024-10-03 11:27:22 +02:00
Table of Contents
 [:flag_fr: Français](fr/Wine-Features)

Binary Compatibility

  • Loads 64-bit, 32-bit, 16-bit Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10 and Windows 3.x programs and libraries
  • Win32 compatible memory layout, exception handling, threads and processes
  • Designed for POSIX compatible operatings systems (eg. Linux, macOS and FreeBSD) and Android
  • "bug-for-bug" compatibility with Windows

Win32 API support

  • Support for DirectX based games and applications (Direct3D support up to DirectX 12)
  • Support for OpenGL and Vulkan based games and applications
  • DirectShow support with use of GStreamer for codecs
  • Direct2D, DirectWrite support
  • MMDevice API, XAudio, WinMM, DirectSound audio APIs are supported
  • Printing via PostScript driver to the host printing system (usually CUPS)
  • Enhanced Metafile (EMF) and Windows Metafile (WMF) driver
  • Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows

Allows Windows program to interface with:

  • X11-based graphics which allow remote display to any X terminal
  • macOS and Android based graphics
  • X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) fonts
  • Sound devices via ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, Core Audio, 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)
  • Video capture devices via v4l2
  • HID devices via IOHid (MacOS), evdev (Linux), hidraw (Linux), SDL2

API Coverage and Portability

  • 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 50 languages
  • Built-in debugger and configurable trace messages
  • External memory checker support using Valgrind
  • Sample programs