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== Status ==
 
== Status ==
Initial compilation hurdles fixedWine builds and installs but the old 32-bit ppc thunking is incompatible with the new 64-bit systems, and crashes immediately on start.
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[[File:Wine_demo_1.png|thumb|Command line]]
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[[File:Wine_demo_2.png|thumb|Wine configuration]]
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Initial port completewinecfg starts and runs on ppc64el systems ([[Page size|64KiB page size]] tested).
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== To-Do==
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* Add ppc64 (big endian) support
  
 
== Initial patches ==
 
== Initial patches ==
Monolithic (will be split when closer to merge):
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Semi-monolithic (will be split further when closer to merge):
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* https://github.com/madscientist159/wine
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== Upstreaming ==
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* [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WINE-PPC64-Starts-Landing Status as of 2021.]
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* As of 2020, [https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/issues/20#issuecomment-703300407 blocked by PE conversion], which was completed in [https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.0-Released Wine 8.0] in 2023.
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== See Also ==
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* [[Porting/Box86|Box86]]
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* [[Porting/FEX-Emu|FEX-Emu]]
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* [[Porting/Hangover|Hangover]]
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[[Category:Ports]]

Latest revision as of 22:09, 17 May 2023

Why?

One word: winelib! There are several large open source projects that, for one reason or another, targeted Windows at their genesis. Many of these projects are quite old, well established, and would take many man-centuries of work to rewrite for native Linux systems. Enabling wine on ppc64 gets us a cheap way to allow these projects to run (when built from source) on ppc64 systems via winelib.

Status

Command line
Wine configuration

Initial port complete. winecfg starts and runs on ppc64el systems (64KiB page size tested).

To-Do

  • Add ppc64 (big endian) support

Initial patches

Semi-monolithic (will be split further when closer to merge):

Upstreaming

See Also