PowerPC MacOSX work...

Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger at gmx.at
Mon May 25 15:06:03 CDT 2009


Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 21:52:53 schrieb Gert van den Berg:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 13:44, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> 
wrote:
> > The main trouble is that Windows apps are x86, so in order to run
> > anything but builtin notepad you'll need a CPU emulator. In that case,
> > just compile wine as x86 binary and run it in the emulator as well.
>
> Just a random question: Any chance that PowerPC Windows apps might
> work on a PPC Wine build?
If I remember and understand the Darwine site correctly, no, they won't work 
because WinPPC uses little endian while MacOS uses big endian. I am wondering 
how that would be possible though, can PPCs switch modes?




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