W I N E

[omro]

Hi everyone,

Little random thought pottered through my brain and my Linux knowledge isn't enough to answer it.

Hypothetically...

Could Wine be installed onto pdaXrom?

If so, could MS Office or even the windows version of Open Office be installed and run using Wine?

[urielka]

someone manage to do so,do search.
the problem is that MSOffice is X86 so you need also qemu so it is damn slow coz qemu x86==>arm is slow(i think it is a interpter and not a dynamic recompiler).

[SlackwareLinux]

Could Wine be installed onto pdaXrom?

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Nope, I don't think so. The short answer is that  wine is x86 only.

The longer, more correct answer can be found in [a href=\"http://www.winehq.com/site/myths#only_x86]Wine's FAQ[/url].

It says that yes, some applications might work with WineLib (which is a little less platform dependant), which would require source code, which is not available with Mircosoft Office. To get everything, you will have to change all of the source code, Wine's source code assumes you are running an x86 processor, but with LOTS of changes, you could get it working. (Anyone feel like looking through 9 megabytes of source code? I sure don't!).

The other problem is that you are trying to run a x86 program on a ARM processor. This would require another emulation layer, which is not yet programmed. Somebody tried once, but the project lost momentum.

Anyways, read the article for a more complete explanation.

[adf]

Could Wine be installed onto pdaXrom?

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Nope, I don't think so. The short answer is that  wine is x86 only.

The longer, more correct answer can be found in [a href=\"http://www.winehq.com/site/myths#only_x86]Wine's FAQ[/url].

It says that yes, some applications might work with WineLib (which is a little less platform dependant), which would require source code, which is not available with Mircosoft Office. To get everything, you will have to change all of the source code, Wine's source code assumes you are running an x86 processor, but with LOTS of changes, you could get it working. (Anyone feel like looking through 9 megabytes of source code? I sure don't!).

The other problem is that you are trying to run a x86 program on a ARM processor. This would require another emulation layer, which is not yet programmed. Somebody tried once, but the project lost momentum.

Anyways, read the article for a more complete explanation.
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you maybe could run bochs or qemu..then run an x86 linux on that, run wine in the x86 linux and your windows app on top of that.  If anything actually worked in that environment it would be stupendously slow and insanely unstable, I think.

[Antikx]

Hi everyone,

Little random thought pottered through my brain and my Linux knowledge isn't enough to answer it.

Hypothetically...

Could Wine be installed onto pdaXrom?

If so, could MS Office or even the windows version of Open Office be installed and run using Wine?
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How do people find MS office compatibilty with ABIWord and Gnumeric under pdaXrom. I haven't found a major problem yet.
(perhaps I should start a new thread)