Winetricks

Homepage of Winetricks, previously hosted at https://code.google.com/p/winetricks.

Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.

It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also lets you install missing DLLs or tweak various Wine settings individually.

The latest version can be downloaded here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks

Tagged releases are accessible here: https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/releases

Custom .verb files

You can pass winetricks a custom .verb (format below), that can be used to add new dlls/settings/programs.

Example icecat.verb:

w_metadata icecat apps \
    title="GNU Icecat 31.7.0" \
    publisher="GNU Foundation" \
    year="2016" \
    media="download" \
    file1="icecat-31.7.0.en-US.win32.zip" \
    installed_exe1="$W_PROGRAMS_X86_WIN/icecat/icecat.exe"

load_iceweasel()
{
    w_download https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/38.8.0/icecat-38.8.0.en-US.win32.zip b9f49144f07044f12afc390acb36bf93e174e199
    w_try_unzip "${W_PROGRAMS_X86_UNIX}" "${W_CACHE}/${W_PACKAGE}/${file1}"
}

Note that the filename and command name (icecat) must match. All metadata fields are optional, only command name and category required.

Tests

The tests need bashate, checkbashisms, and shellcheck>=0.4.4 installed. Makefile supports a few test targets:

• check - runs './tests/winetricks-tests quick' (without first clearing $WINETRICKS_CACHE)
• shell-checks - runs './tests/shell-checks'
• test - runs './tests/winetricks-tests full' (and clears $WINETRICKS_CACHE first)
• xvfb-check - runs './tests/winetricks-tests xvfb-check' (without first clearing $WINETRICKS_CACHE first)

Support

• Winetricks is maintained by Austin English <austinenglish!$gmail.com>.
• If winetricks has helped you out, then please consider donating to the FSF/EFF as a thank you:
  • EFF - https://supporters.eff.org/donate/button
  • FSF - https://my.fsf.org/donate
• Donations towards electricity bill and developer beer fund can be sent via Bitcoin to 18euSAZztpZ9wcN6xZS3vtNnE1azf8niDk
• I try to actively respond to bugs and pull requests on GitHub:
• Bugs: https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/issues/new
• Pull Requests: https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/pulls