How to run wine on ppc64 architecture

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louis.cao
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How to run wine on ppc64 architecture

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As I studied, wine cann't be compiled on powerpc64 architecture. The only relevant power architecture that can run wine is Mac OS, which is different from ppc64.
I have been tried a hard time to compile wine, and I find many problems about config files and API. Can anyone tell me or point me to compile wine and install it? What do I need to do to run wine and start application programs?
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Re: How to run wine on ppc64 architecture

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Even if you managed to build Wine on ppc64, you couldn't run any Windows apps on it, as Wine does not do CPU emulation.
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Re: How to run wine on ppc64 architecture

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dimesio wrote:Even if you managed to build Wine on ppc64, you couldn't run any Windows apps on it, as Wine does not do CPU emulation.
Wine itself does not do CPU emulation. The emulation is provided by qemu and wine together, and that't why arm architecture runs well. So, is it possible to run wine on ppc64, or is there any method to solve the problem? Thank you!
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Re: How to run wine on ppc64 architecture

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You could try filing bugs for the problems.
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