Frank Joerdens wrote: > I wouldn't think it's possible but I'd like to know (with an > explanation, if possible): Can you run win32 apps with wine on non-x86 > computers, e.g. under LinuxPPC? > > I guess not, but I wouldn't be able to give a clear explanation as to > why. Not a silly question at all. No you cannot run native Windoze apps on non-X86 platforms. But, one of the purposes of wine is to provide the ability to recompile a windows program to run on other platforms, with no, or more likely a small amount, of changes. So someone with the source code to a windows program can now add support for any platform that runs Wine, with hopefully minimal trouble. And note that Wine is being incorporated into OSes other than Linux. I have noticed some recent activity by employees of Sun to port Wine to Sparc Solaris. The only reason I see for doing that is they hope to then be able to convince some vendors of Windows programs to recompile their programs with Wine to run on the Sparc platform. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
