Run Windows ARM binaries on m1 macOS

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jojin
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Run Windows ARM binaries on m1 macOS

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Like how wine compiled on x64 can run x64 windows programs, does wine support running arm(64) windows programs when compiled for arm? If so, is there a guide for doing so?

I'm looking to run windows programs that have an arm version on arm macOS 12 (m1).
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Re: Run Windows ARM binaries on m1 macOS

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I’ve not tested building for arm64 but I’ve seen many commits related to this so might as well give it a try, just note that Apple Silicon chips only support arm64 there’s no arm32 support.

The minimum requirements are as follows;
- Xcode Command Line Tools
- bison-3.0
- freetype2
- pkgconf

bison3 needs to be in $PATH or you could directly pass BISON=(complete path to bison binary) to configure.

Then it should be as simple as “./configure && make”, though it’s possible you may need to pass --enable-win64 to configure.

Once make has completed you can test if your desired applications works by running wine from the build directory, if it does work then you can run “make install”
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