Important Files from a Windows Partition

Wine has the ability to use files from an installation of the actual Microsoft Windows operating system. Generally these files are loaded on a VFAT partition that is mounted under Linux.

This is probably the most important configuration detail. The use of Windows registry and DLL files dramatically alters the behaviour of Wine. If nothing else, pacakager have to make this distinction clear to the end user, so that they can intelligently choose their configuration.

  1. Registry Files

    [WINDOWSDIR]/system32/system.dat

    [WINDOWSDIR]/system32/user.dat

    [WINDOWSDIR]/win.ini

  2. Windows Dynamic Link Libraries ([WINDOWSDIR]/system32/*.dll)

    Wine has the ability to use the actuall Windows DLL files when running an application. An end user can configure Wine so that Wine uses some or all of these DLL files when running a given application.