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2.2. Requirements

Successfully installing Wine requires:

  * Much thought and work from the packager (1x)
   
  * A configuration file
   
    Wine will not run without a configuration file. Further, no default is
    currently provided by Wine. Some packagers may attempt to provide (or
    dynamically generate) a default configuration file. Some packagers may wish
    to rely on winesetup to generate the configuration file.
   
  * A writeable C:\ directory structure on a per-user basis. Applications do
    dump .ini files into c:\windows, installers dump .exe, .dll and more into
    c:\windows and subdirectories or into C:\Program Files.
   
  * An initial set of registry entries.
   
    The current Wine standard is to use the regapi tool against the
    'winedefault.reg' file to generate a default registry.
   
    There are several other choices that could be made; registries can be
    imported from a Windows partition. At this time, Wine does not completely
    support a complex multi-user installation ala Windows NT, but it could
    fairly readily.
   
  * Some special .dll and .exe files in the windows\system directory, since
    applications directly check for their presence.
   
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