Wine

Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is an application that allows Windows software to run on Linux. This article deals with installing, configuring and maintaining a general purpose Wine environment on Gentoo.

Installation
Enable the USE flags of choice and emerge :

Media
Many users are likely to want support for as much media as possible, in which cases the following flags are recommended.

Disabling the Menubuilder
To prevent Wine from adding menu entries and desktop links, the following dll override can be used.

Already added entries can be deleted by removing the corresponding files from.

Tools and Interfaces
Tools such as graphical interfaces for Wine for users who want an alternative to the command-line.
 * - Qt4 GUI configuration tool for Wine
 * - Wine-doors is a package manager for Wine
 * - Easy way to install DLLs needed to work around problems in Wine
 * - Set of scripts to easily install and use Windows games and software

Debugging
If you find a bug and want to file a bug report you'll probably be asked to try the latest version, and if you are not running testing, you'll need to un-keyword it:

Now when you update it you should make sure the custom-cflags USE flag is enabled, as debugging will be impossible without it.