[Wine] Re: How to recompile Wine on ARM

[rygle]

@Eyedasan

Sorry to disappoint you, but what Vitamin was saying is that Wine can only run on an x86 processor. It does not have the code to emulate an x86 processor on the ARM platform, or the PPC platform, or anything else. This code would need to be added, which is very serious work. That is why Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.

What Wine does is it intercepts API calls that Windows executables make and translates the Windows API call into an API call that works on Linux or Mac. But whether it's Linux or Mac, the processor must be x86. That's why Wine will not run on older Power Macs, but it will on newer x86 Macs.