See for yourself sudo apt-get install wine Surprisingly enough, Raspbian's repository provides a package, but it dates back to ancient Egypt's first pharaoh dynasties. You have the usual options of installing through your distro's package manager or building Wine yourself. My system booted up without any issues and I sincerely hope this will also be the case for you. Backup your old kernel to prevent disaster. Once the build is complete, copy the kernel, overlays and modules and reboot. You can do this either through menuconfig or just edit the relevant lines of. Before compiling, configure the 3G/1G split. Time to resurrect a notebook and install Ubuntu, I guess. You'll absolutely want to cross compile, because a) the Pi's more sluggish than Boomer legislation and b) you'll condemn the SD card to gruesome death. If the configs module isn't available and you believe your distro's split is OK, you can proceed with the Wine setup and come back to this step if Wine complains of an incorrect split. Should this work and you can spot CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G=y in the output, the situation is grave and action needs to be taken. Zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_VMSPLIT Btw, to find out the VM split of your system you could try sudo modprobe configs Oh well, complaining doesn't help, let's just build the kernel. For one reason or another, Raspbian's default kernel uses a 2G/2G split so Wine will refuse to start. This is kinda baffling, because I always thought Windows uses a 2G/2G split unless you configure something else in boot.ini, but I'm likely missing some context to see the deeper picture. On 32-bit distros like Raspbian, Wine requires a 3G/1G VM split between user and kernel mode code. Unfortunately, we're confronted with compiling a custom kernel right at the beginning of our journey. I specifically focus on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running Raspbian and here's a screenshot of Notepad++ running there.Ĭonfiguring a 3G/1G VM split (32-bit distros only)
So this guide will walk you trough the steps required to execute Windows software with Wine on ARM devices running *nix. But while working on my project I couldn't find anything but scattered bits of information and sometimes there was even nothing at all. StarCraft (as well as Diablo 1 & 2) is playable on ARM through Wine thanks to the insanely hard work of the Lithuanian hacker notaz. The concept of running Wine on ARM devices isn't new.
Actually, Windows 10 itself runs on the Pi, but I really dislike that OS despite otherwise being a Windows fanboy. Yes, yes, meanwhile even the dead are aware that you could run Skype and TeamViewer with Eltech's ExaGear Desktop, but it's also driven by an x86 emulator under the hood and-as a bonus-is closed source. no, emulation isn't an option and this directly leads us to Wine. Of course, emulation springs to mind immediately, but the poor Pi's already resource constrained enough.
So when I started playing around with a Raspberry Pi to see if I can use it as a spec'd down desktop PC I knew I have to get Notepad++ to run or else forget about ARM entirely. I can't imagine working on a system on which Notepad++ and a bunch of other useful Windows tools aren't available. Build using a MinGW toolchain supporting ARM.Configuring a 3G/1G VM split (32-bit distros only).However, whether (and how) Mac users will be able to virtualize Windows x86 applications on Apple Silicon Macs remains unknown. 圆4 emulation will first be introduced to ARM Windows machines via the Windows Insider Program next month.Running Windows software on the Raspberry Pi (and other ARM devices) with Wine Contents MacOS already completely dropped support for 32-bit applications somewhat recently, and Apple will offer Rosetta 2 to emulate 64-bit macOS apps on ARM Macs (which the company calls "Macs with Apple Silicon"). Apple is expected to launch the first ARM-based Mac later this year. While Windows on ARM has been a relatively slow mover, that hasn't stopped competitors from going forward with ARM plans. Additionally, the company announced that a Windows on ARM-native Microsoft Teams client is around the corner. The announcement noted that Microsoft is "making Microsoft Edge" faster on ARM and improving its impact on battery life as well.
Visual Studio Code "has also been updated and optimized for Windows 10 on ARM," it said. Further Reading Microsoft just introduced the new $549 Surface Laptop GoMicrosoft also announced several new, app-specific developers for ARM-native apps.