[HN Gopher] Wine 9.0
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Wine 9.0
Author : BitPirate
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-01-16 22:28 UTC (33 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (gitlab.winehq.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (gitlab.winehq.org)
| genpfault wrote:
| > All modules that call a Unix library contain WoW64 thunks to
| enable calling the 64-bit Unix library from 32-bit PE code. This
| means that it is possible to run 32-bit Windows applications on a
| purely 64-bit Unix installation. This is called the new WoW64
| mode, as opposed to the old WoW64 mode where 32-bit applications
| run inside a 32-bit Unix process.
|
| Woo! No more random pile of i386 packages on the host system!
| bpye wrote:
| I wonder if you could do something similar with QEMU user mode
| to run x86/x64 Windows applications with native architecture
| libraries...
|
| Edit: I should have read further down
|
| > The completion of the PE/Unix separation means that it's
| possible to run existing Windows binaries on ARM64.
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