Re: Wine

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:23:53PM +1000, Steven Hanley wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:11:27AM +0200, Lorenzo De Vito wrote:
> > I'm looking for Wine, but all binaries that I've found are for i386 only,
> > there is a porting for PPC ? I've looked to:
> > 
> > http://packages.debian.org/stable/otherosfs/wine.html
> > 
> > in  the download page: "Download Page for wine_0.0.20000109-3.deb on Intel
> > x86 machines"
> 
> wont work on powerpc, wine is not a machine emulator, it actually ends up
> running windows code on the host machine, so it has to be used on an x86
> architecture.
> 
> If you want to run x86 stuff on powerpc you will need an emulator such as
> bochs or plex86, both of these woudl in theory work on powerpc, dont know how
> well though.

There was twine also, which was supposed to merge both wine and twin, and
should have included an i386 emulator also.

It is not debian packaged though, altough there was some discution about it a
year or such ago.

Friendly,

Sven Luther