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Hangover: Running x86 programs with ARM/RISC-V Wine
3 points · Open discussionAndreRH
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Hangover runs Win64 and Win32 applications on arm64 Linux
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21 sourcesHangover: Native ARM64 wine running Win32 applications
3 points · Open discussionThis is probably the correct link: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover (the current link is the main GitHub account page.)
I’d love to understand more of how it works. The readme has enough info to be tantalizingly interesting.
In Hangover: Native ARM64 wine running Win32 applicationsAndreRH/hangover: Hangover runs simple Win32 applications on ARM64 Linux
2 points · Open discussionHangover 9.0 – Runs simple Windows 32-bit (x86) applications on ARM64 Linux
3 points · Open discussionHangover 8.21 – runs simple Win32 applications on ARM64 Linux
3 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/AndreRH/hangover
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Hangover-2023-Open-Source
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-0.8.3
They were working on ARM and a bit of POWER9 for a while, before it had to be put on hold due to all the PE conversion work and resulting churn in WINE. Now it seems to have been restarted/rewritten.
In The tug-of-war over server-side WebAssemblyHangover 0.8.1 alpha release to run x86 Windows binaries on ARM hardware
2 points · Open discussionThere's a vaguely similar-ish project Hangover, which integrates Qemu and Wine, to run Windows apps on ARM and whatnot: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover
As I understand it, Qemu in this arrangement only translates the code, without emulating hardware.
Alas, the project does not target Android anymore (at the moment)—it was one hope for running 90s games on a phone or tablet. Though the current status seems quite raw anyway, so things may change many times yet.
In Box64 lets you run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systemsThere's definitely a way to use Wine along with binfmt_misc to run x86 apps on ARM or other architectures.
edit: Hangover lets you run x86 programs via Wine on ARM platforms: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover
In Do you really want Linux phonesWine Is Not an Emulator ;-)
But seriously -- wine should have equal performance to running a program "natively" on windows because it essentially is running the program natively, just with different system DLLs that call back to the linux kernel instead of the NT executive.
Their implementation may be slightly slower in places, but it's not a problem inherent to Wine itself, and could always be fixed.
I know there's a stigma against running win32 apps on linux, and possibly rightly so, but there really isn't a reason why Wine couldn't be a legitimate runtime environment for linux. You can make 100% open source software that targets Wine, and never needs to use or link to proprietary software.
Wine has even been ported to architectures where there have never been native windows ports, like the ppc64le port of Wine.
(Wine/win32's binary int
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erface is also easier to intercept and automatically translate/emulate calls for non-native architectures, which is the basis of WoW64 and x86 on ARM emulation, and in Wine land, projects like Hangover https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover )
I couldn't find the reason but Android development was discontinued a few months ago. It might be problems that the parent wine project is having on newer Android OS. I believe the stuff related to it was removed about 10 days ago [0], but not before one last bit of code related to building for android was added. [1]
[0] https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/commit/73a88ff807e308862...
[1] https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/commit/c61a3a58be78e2717...
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