Sparc wine
Adrian Bunk
bunk at fs.tum.de
Fri Nov 29 11:49:40 CST 2002
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:15:48AM -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
>...
> The bigger issue is what are you hoping to accomplish? Having Wine
> compile will not allow you to run Windows binary apps on a Sparc. Wine
> does not emulate the processor, but only implements the Windows API. The
> programs run natively, so require a real X86 processor.
In theory it should also be possible to use a PC emulator like Bochs [1],
so it wouldn't be impossible to run Windows binary apps on Solaris/sparc
or any other UNIX system. 8-)
cu
Adrian
[1] http://bochs.sf.net
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