Wine

Wine is a open-source compatibility layer that allows Windows applications  to run on Unix-like operating system without a copy of Microsoft Windows.

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The following versions of Wine are available on OSC systems: 

You can use module spider wine to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.

Access

Wine is available to all OSC users. If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help.

Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type

The Wine project authors, Open source

Usage

Set-up

In Owens-Desktop or Owens-VDI (if your applications need OpenGL) from OnDemand, run the following command:

module load wine

Using Wine

Please note that Wine is built with '--enable-win64' and so it cannot run Windows 32-bit binaries.  One can run the following command to execute a Windows 64-bit binary: 

wine64 /path/to/window_64bit_exe

Further Reading

• Wine user's guide