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tle:
I am so happy to read about this in

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2020-August/171910.html

FlyingBlackbird:
Fascinating!

Can somebody explain how it will be possible to execute Windows binaries via Wine on a ppc64le architecture (which has a different CPU instruction set than x86)? QEMU?

I thought Wine is "just" offering the Windows API as a wrapper around kernel/Linux calls...

jirka:

--- Quote from: FlyingBlackbird on August 30, 2020, 05:54:49 pm ---Can somebody explain how it will be possible to execute Windows binaries via Wine on a ppc64le architecture (which has a different CPU instruction set than x86)? QEMU?

--- End quote ---

No way.

It's just the winelib port: a library which allows to compile some programs which use Win API. It cannot be used  to run  x86 binaries on the POWER.

ClassicHasClass:
Exactly. You'd need something like Hangover to do that.

cchinicz:

--- Quote from: ClassicHasClass on August 31, 2020, 10:53:11 pm ---Exactly. You'd need something like Hangover to do that.

--- End quote ---
Hey Classic,

I've just read your article (www.talospace.com/2020/10/its-good-to-have-hangover.html) about Hangover and visited the project page (github.com/AndreRH/hangover/tree/acb911f9ad38ef835d9265b6d474092970faa4ca).

Is there a binary that I can download and test?

I read the warning about 4 vs 64K pages. I'm using Fedora 33. Is it worth trying?

Thanks

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