README: update for 1.2

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sat Jul 10 02:50:00 CDT 2010


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-Austin
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 1. INTRODUCTION
 
 Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
-(including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix.  It
+(including DOS, Windows 3.x, Win32, and Win64 executables) on Unix.  It
 consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
 Windows binary, and a library (called Winelib) that implements Windows
 API calls using their Unix or X11 equivalents.  The library may also
@@ -75,16 +75,18 @@ Basic requirements:
 
   Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
 
-  You also need flex version 2.5 or later and bison.
+  You also need flex version 2.5.33 or later and bison.
 
 Optional support libraries:
   Configure will display notices when optional libraries are not found
   on your system. See http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for
   hints about the packages you should install.
 
-  On 64-bit platforms you have to make sure to install the 32-bit
-  versions of these libraries; see http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
-  for details.
+  On 64-bit platforms, if compiling Wine as 32-bit (default), you have
+  to make sure to install the 32-bit versions of these libraries; see 
+  http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit for details. If you want a true
+  64-bit Wine (or a mixed 32-bit and 64-bit Wine setup), see
+  http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64 for details.
 
 4. COMPILATION
 
@@ -92,7 +94,6 @@ In case you chose to not use wineinstall, run the following commands
 to build Wine:
 
 ./configure
-make depend
 make
 
 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
@@ -102,22 +103,10 @@ Windows source code under Unix.
 
 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
 
-To upgrade to a new release by using a patch file, first cd to the
-top-level directory of the release (the one containing this README
-file). Then do a "make clean", and patch the release with:
-
-    bunzip2 -c patch-file | patch -p1
-
-where "patch-file" is the name of the patch file (something like
-wine-1.0.x.diff.bz2). You can then re-run "./configure", and then
-run "make depend && make".
-
-
 5. SETUP
 
 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
-will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
-needed files.
+will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and other needed files.
 
 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
 first.  Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
@@ -134,17 +123,16 @@ or a filename only.
 
 For example: to run Notepad:
 
-	wine notepad		   (using the search Path as specified in
-	wine notepad.exe	    the config file to locate the file)
+    wine notepad		   (using the search Path as specified in
+    wine notepad.exe	    the registry to locate the file)
 
-	wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe  (using DOS filename syntax)
+    wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe  (using DOS filename syntax)
 
-	wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe  (using Unix filename syntax)
+    wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe  (using Unix filename syntax)
 
-        wine notepad.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3
-				   (calling program with parameters)
+    wine notepad.exe /parameter1 -parameter2 parameter3 (calling program with parameters)
 
-Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. In that crash
+Wine is not yet complete, so several programs may crash. If that happens
 you will be dropped into the debugger so that you can investigate and
 fix the problem.  For more information on how to do this, please check
 the debugging section of the Wine Developer's Guide.
@@ -163,8 +151,7 @@ Usenet:	You can discuss Wine-related issues and get help
 
 Bugs:	Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at http://bugs.winehq.org
 	Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
-	problem is already found before posting a bug report.  You can
-	also post bug reports to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
+	problem is already known or fixed before posting a bug report.
 
 IRC:	Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.freenode.net.
 


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