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Is it possible to run Wine on Windows (without resorting to Windows 10 and WSL)?
by lnternet 10y ago
Is it possible to run Wine on Windows (without resorting to Windows 10 and WSL)?
- kej 10y agoWould this be for running 16 bit programs on 64 bit Windows, or is there another use case I'm not thinking of?
- lnternet 10y agoThere are quite a few older Win32 games that won't run on modern Windows systems despite the built-in compatibility modes.
- simlevesque 10y agoIf these games say they need "*.dll" to run, you can copy it from Wine into the game folder and the game will run. YMMV.
- jklehm 10y agoTo some extent on the SUA.[0] I'm curious to see someone write up an attempt with the WSL.[1] [0] https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More#Psst..._Even_Microsoft_Does_UNIX..._Sort_of https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More#Psst..._Even_Microso... [1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoIIRC some of the higher-level DLLs can be compiled for Windows (which is done sometimes for testing, or by ReactOS to ship an actual Windows clone), but the core ones like kernel32, ntdll, user32, and gdi are too tied into the POSIX/NT abstractions.