Running i386 win32 bins
 

Hi
Is it possible to run i386 win32 bins via wine?
thanks in advance

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No, it's not possible because of the different CPU architectures.

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Well...in theory you could port Qemu or something that could emulate the i386 CPU. But it would be really slow. DOSBox does something like that, I think.

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this has been discussed alot before, and most probably searching for one minute will give you the answer..

no you can't use wine to run i386 programs on an arm processor, as wine is not an emulator

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so using wine alone, this can't be done. the wine package in the repository is there to run windows programs recompiled for arm only..

if you are dying to run a program compiled for x86, you can still do so by using Qemu in user mode, this combined with wine will let you run the program at a miserable speed.

you can do so by installing wine on your PC, install the program you want to use, make sure it's running, then clone your linux partition, and from the n900 install qemu, then copy qemu-i386-static into /usr/bin of your cloned linux partition, then chroot into it.

now you can attempt to run the program by changing your directory to where the program is located, then using wine./program.exe

this is not reliable and you may run into several Qemu crashes and segfaults..

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It's as easy as porting Symbian.

Oh, by the way - how is your project coming along? All the threads you started a couple of weeks ago have been very quiet...

;)

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Yes I know, but since OP specifically asked about Wine I didn't really see the relevance..

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I'm a bit busy this time... I'm searching for an answer how to compile this

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What exactly are you trying to compile?

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Hmm just wondering if it's possible to run i386 how about 64bit apps? :/

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See reply #2

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At least ARM and x86 are 32bit. It'd be even harder to do 64.

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Sorry then what I meant was emulate it.

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Compile what - talking about symbian900, symbianit, or how-it's-called. I've not decided yet

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Compile the kernel first then and then in a chroot compile the userland tools and build inside out from there?

Have you ever built an OS from scratch? It varies and it's not an easy thing, even if you are just porting.

EDIT: That doesn't even make sense in a mobile environment. Scratch that. Kernel first still applies though

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any way of porting w32 apps? that aint open src

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To port an app, you need the source. You can't port it without...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting

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Not really, although it would be extremely hard and almost undoable for big applications, but you could (theoretically) disassemble the application convert it to C++ (there are tools for that, though the code is unreadable) and then port it.

Please check this:
http://www.abadiadelcrimen.com/
It's a remake of a very ancient game. The author did it by directly hacking the original x86 asm code disassembled by him.
Then another guy "ported" it to C++ using a tool called VIGASOCO:
http://www.abadiadelcrimen.com/vigasoco.html

Nice, isn't it?

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You'd need a passion to convert something from x86 ASM. And I doubt it was written in a low level language like that game. Looking at a .net program through a decompiler is like staring into an abyss

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I was trying to answer in the context the question was asked ;)

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Haha, yes but there is always someone out there doing amazing things!