Running windows app on ubuntu arm(recompiled wine)

Jedi_James07 · Post by **Jedi_James07** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:28 am

Hi, I am sorry if there is similar topic, but i couldn't find search field(only in right corner, it wasn't search on forum).

Maybe very silly question, but is possible to run Application/Game for Windows(i386 arch) on Linux (for ex. Ubuntu ARM) with recompiled Wine?

Default principle:
Wine translate instruction from windows application to linux, then linux make known instruction on processor and return to the wine running app.

Cross architecture principle:
Recompiled wine for arm architecture translate windows app/game instruction for linux which send instruction to processor and processor made instruction. Only change is that wine is recompiled.

Is possible to run windwos app on linux on arm based architecture?

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:39 am

Jedi_James07 wrote: Is possible to run windwos app on linux on arm based architecture?

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-de ... 68098.html

Jedi_James07 · Post by **Jedi_James07** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:15 pm

So application/game must be recompiled too? Do I understand correctly?

Thunderbird · Post by **Thunderbird** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:19 pm

Yes, the programs you want to run have to be compiled for ARM since Wine doesn't contain an x86 emulator. You might have luck using qemu's binary loader to run a x86 build of Wine on ARM (it was what qemu was designed for in the past but these days it can also be used as a full system emulator).

Jedi_James07 · Post by **Jedi_James07** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:12 pm

On ARM device I will install&run Qemu, in Qemu will be installed Wine. And any app/game should run in this Qemu emulated Wine. But what about performance?

I am interested in this, because I'd like to buy any upcoming tegra 2 tablet. And it would be great, if i could play old games like Red Alert 2, Age of empires, ...... to games such as Quake III.

perryh · Post by **perryh** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:49 pm

"Jedi_James07" <[email protected]> wrote:

On ARM device I will install&run Qemu, in Qemu will be installed
Wine. And any app/game should run in this Qemu emulated Wine. But
what about performance?

This was attempted a while back on PowerPC, and the performance was
so bad that the effort was pretty much abandoned. If today's ARM
processors are, say, 10x the speed of a PPC970 (Mac G5) it might be
worth revisiting, and the old PPC "darwine" work might be a good
starting point.