Wine is animplementationof the WindowsAPI on top of Xand Unix. Itdoes notrequireMicrosoftWindows, butcan use nativeWindows DLLs ifthey areavailable. Itprovides both adevelopmenttoolkit forporting Windowssource code toUnix as well asa programloader,allowing manyunmodifiedWindowsprograms to runon x86-basedUnixes.
Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes.
