Wine on Windows 10
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Wine on Windows 10
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Re: Wine on Windows 10
#2I don't know what this achieves over booting up a VM of an old OS to run your programs.
Re: Wine on Windows 10
#3Hilarious. Props to author for not trying to give a reasonable looking motivation for this beyond "It would be funny". That's more than enough.
Re: Wine on Windows 10
#4This can be very helpful in the future for playing games with strange 16-bit-mixed-with-32-bit installers that fail to run properly on modern Windows, even 32-bit versions. I hope WSL2 comes out soon.
Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows.
Re: Wine on Windows 10
#5This can be very helpful in the future for playing games with strange 16-bit-mixed-with-32-bit installers that fail to run properly on modern Windows, even 32-bit versions. I hope WSL2 comes out soon. Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows.
Exactly. I used a similar approach to install Space Empires III on a Windows 10 x64 machine which would not run its 16bit installer but would run the 32bit game itself just fine.
Re: Wine on Windows 10
#6This can be very helpful in the future for playing games with strange 16-bit-mixed-with-32-bit installers that fail to run properly on modern Windows, even 32-bit versions. I hope WSL2 comes out soon. Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows.
Does WSL work on wine ?
Re: Wine on Windows 10
#7This can be very helpful in the future for playing games with strange 16-bit-mixed-with-32-bit installers that fail to run properly on modern Windows, even 32-bit versions. I hope WSL2 comes out soon. Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows.
This project is only completed when you can recursively keep doing this forever, without it ever breaking.
Re: Wine on Windows 10
#8This can be very helpful in the future for playing games with strange 16-bit-mixed-with-32-bit installers that fail to run properly on modern Windows, even 32-bit versions. I hope WSL2 comes out soon. Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows.
Does WSL work on wine ?
Maybe by using qemu? (Windows on qemu on Wine on Linux on Windows)
Re: Wine on Windows 10
#9I feel like it would be useful to add "(using WSL)" to the title.
I admit I would not have opened the link though, had the title spoiled this part of the story, and the article is funny to read.
> Running Wine on Windows has been a fever dream of those responding to the siren call of "we do what we must, because we shouldn't" since at least 2004, when someone tried compiling Wine in Cygwin and trashed the registry of the host system.
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> But I want to stress again: this now works trivially. I'm not some sort of mad genius to have done this thing — I only appear to be the first person to admit to it in public.
Re: Wine on Windows 10
#10WSL2 is in beta now if anyone on HN feels like getting 32 bit apps to work.