wine users - Jun 2002 - wine on non-x86 architectures (presumably silly question)

I wouldn't think it's possible but I'd like to know (with an
explanation, if possible): Can you run win32 apps with wine on non-x86
computers, e.g. under LinuxPPC?

I guess not, but I wouldn't be able to give a clear explanation as to
why.

Regards, Frank

Frank Joerdens wrote:
> I wouldn't think it's possible but I'd like to know (with an
> explanation, if possible): Can you run win32 apps with wine on non-x86
> computers, e.g. under LinuxPPC?
> 
> I guess not, but I wouldn't be able to give a clear explanation as to
> why.
Not a silly question at all. No you cannot run native Windoze apps on 
non-X86 platforms. But, one of the purposes of wine is to provide the 
ability to recompile a windows program to run on other platforms, with 
no, or more likely a small amount, of changes. So someone with the 
source code to a windows program can now add support for any platform 
that runs Wine, with hopefully minimal trouble.

And note that Wine is being incorporated into OSes other than Linux. I 
have noticed some recent activity by employees of Sun to port Wine to 
Sparc Solaris. The only reason I see for doing that is they hope to then 
be able to convince some vendors of Windows programs to recompile their 
programs with Wine to run on the Sparc platform.

--- Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de> wrote:
> I wouldn't think it's possible but I'd like to know
> (with an
> explanation, if possible): Can you run win32 apps
> with wine on non-x86
> computers, e.g. under LinuxPPC?
> 
> I guess not, but I wouldn't be able to give a clear
> explanation as to
> why.
It's possible to port Wine as Winelib to non-x86
platfoms and even some work is being done. This topic
is discussed from time to time. If you are interested
you will be able to find these discussions in the Wine
archive. Search for "PowerPC" and "Sparc" keywords.

Also, there is a bug open for PowerPC port:
http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44

Andriy

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