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Basics of WINE
Kreyren edited this page Nov 15, 2019
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This is simplified documentation used as a gateway to kreytricks and wine.
Wine (https://www.winehq.org/) is compatibility layer for unix-based OS to run windows applications natively.
Compatibility layer manager which makes it easier to run windows applications out-of-the-box for windows applications that are not sufficiently implemented in wine itself.
Wine is using wineprefixes (by default in $HOME/.wine) which are sandboxed environment (with access to unix environment through mounted drive) to be used by windows applications.
wine is checking for wineprefix on each invokation of wine that requires wine runtime and if wineprefix is not present it creates it in the value of "WINEPREFIX" environment variable.