How to install Wine on Windows

[R0gerBlack]

Hi everyone, I'd like use Wine on Windows for developing compatible-apps for Linux but I'd prefer not to make a virtual machine for Linux.

My OS is Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, so I can't run andLinux, coLinux or Portable Ubuntu.
How can I install wine then? Please help me.

[doh123]

have you tried with Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com

[R0gerBlack]

Yes I did.
This doesn't work I think but it should be written in a page of this site. Wine is not compatible with Windows natively so the only solution is something concerning Linux but I'd prefer not to use Virtual Box or VMWare as I said for something more confortable. Anything for 64 bit OS?

[dimesio]

This doesn't work I think but it should be written in a page of this site.

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows

[R0gerBlack]

I had already read that. Nothing which works (specially for the solutions at the end of the page), anything else for 64-bit OS?

[dimesio]

Dual boot or build/buy a cheap computer and put Linux on it.

[R0gerBlack]

I'd prefer to evit that lol. This is the point...

[dimesio]

It's your choice, of course, but I don't see why you're so opposed to a VM or dual booting; neither costs money, and either one would be much easier to set up than trying to get Wine to run on Windows. The first sentence of the Wine on Windows wiki page notes that Wine itself doesn't work yet.

[R0gerBlack]

I have bad experiences with VMs (Very bad performance because of bad emulation of Video card) and I never liked a lot the dual boot. I like it with Windows Dual Boot or with Wubi concerning Ubuntu but I'd prefer the solution closest with my SO such as andLinux to make immediate-tests of my programmes on Wine and other.

[dimesio]

You should probably ask about 64 bit support on the andLinux forum.

[R0gerBlack]

I don't think it's the best solution. It's clearly not compatible with 64-bit Windows. Instead asking in this forum I could get (or at least I hope) to get alternative solutions to andLinux and not only based to that.

[dimesio]

How to install Linux while keeping your Windows system intact but not dual booting or using a VM is not a Wine question.

[R0gerBlack]

It is not as long it isn't the only solution, and such as that solution seems to be not working I ask here for others.

[dimesio]

The answer to the question in your subject line, how to install Wine on Windows, is that you can't, and even if you could, I don't believe testing your programs under such conditions would assure the compatibility with Linux you are seeking. There is a reason we have a separate subforum for Mac OSX--there are problems specific to that platform that do not occur on Linux. Wine on Windows would have its own set of issues. If your goal is to verify that your programs work in Wine on Linux, you need to test them in Wine on Linux.

As to how to do that while still clinging to Windows, you've already rejected all the obvious options, and this is not the best place to ask about lesser-known ones. The purpose of Wine is to run Windows programs without Windows; that's what our users are doing. The reason I suggested asking on the andLinux forum is not because I think that platform will work for your purpose (because I don't), but because it seems to be designed for people who want to keep Windows as their primary platform, and hence are more likely to have investigated all the possible ways of doing that.