new to wine - wish to run a exe on IBM AIX

koolkk007 · Post by **koolkk007** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:16 pm

Hi,
I am a new user in the WINE world. some experts in coderanch forum suggetsed to use wine for ny below requirment:
' have a windows exe which can be accessed from the unix machine (The drive is mounted on unix box)
I wish to run this exe from unix. can you suggest me some of the ways to do this?'
my OS details are:
Unix box: IBM AIX version 6.1 (Please note it is NOT Linux!)
Windows: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition; OS version: 5.2.3790 Service Pack 2 Build 3790

the exe resides on unix at /home/kunal/win/sample.exe
the corresponding mapped drive of windows is V:\sample.exe (V drive corresponds to /home/kunal/win/)
My interest is only to run the program from base platform of UNIX and not from windows (I know the fact the calling unix from windows is much simpler!)

how can WINE help me in above?

Thanks,
Kunal

Post by **DanKegel** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:32 pm

What CPU is your AIX running on?

Do you have the source code to the Windows app?

koolkk007 · Post by **koolkk007** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:22 am

Hi Dan,
How do I find that out? what CPU is my AIX running? can you please help with a command that can tell me this?
I just downloaded the code from wine site for Wine version 1.3.13

Kunal

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:56 am

koolkk007 wrote: How do I find that out? what CPU is my AIX running?

Open a terminal and type

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uname -p

The reason Dan asked is because Wine does not do CPU emulation and Windows apps are for x86, so if you are running this on a PowerPC (which is likely), while you probably could compile Wine on it, it wouldn't be able to run any Windows apps.