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Sep 11, 2003
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Francois Gouget
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Alexandre Julliard
Sep 11, 2003
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</question>
<answer>
<para>
Wine is being developed specifically to run on the <emphasis>Intel x86</emphasis> class of CPUs under certain UNIXes that run on the x86 platform.
Winelib however is capable of porting Windows program <emphasis>source code</emphasis> to other platforms also, not only x86.
</para>
<para>
Thus running Windows programs via Wine on other platforms (e.g. MacOS X) is <emphasis>not</emphasis> possible; the only way to run Windows code
on MacOS X would be to take Windows program source code and recompile it for e.g. MacOS X using Winelib.
Wine is being developed specifically to run on the <emphasis>Intel
x86</emphasis> class of CPUs under certain UNIXes that run on this
platform. Winelib however is capable of porting the Windows
applications <emphasis>source code</emphasis> to other platforms
also, not only x86.
</para>
<para>
Thus running Windows binaries on other platforms (e.g. Mac OS X on
PowerPC) using just Wine is <emphasis>not</emphasis> possible. You
would have to either run Wine in an emulated x86 environment or
take the Windows application source code and recompile it using
Winelib.
</para>
<para>
The
following will list the x86 operating systems supported by
Wine
; Wine
lib support for other platforms keeps evolving,
The
se are the platforms supported by Wine.
Winelib support for other platforms keeps evolving,
so it's not specifically listed here.
</para>
<para>
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commercial UNIX and UNIX clone vendors as well.
</para>
<para>
BeOS: porting efforts used to be pretty strong, but BeOS has severe
limitations in Unix call support, so a port will probably never
happen.
BeOS: porting efforts (BeWine) used to be pretty strong, but BeOS
has severe limitations in Unix call support. The demise of Be
further hampered the project though it might come back one day on
one of the open BeOS projects. In any case a functional port seems
unlikely to ever happen at this stage.
</para>
<para>
Mac OS X / Darwin: The <ulink
url="http://darwine.sourceforge.net/project.html">Darwine</> is
currently working on porting Wine to the Darwin/x86 platform. Their
goal is to eventually make it possible to run x86 Windows
applications on Darwin/PPC and then Mac OS X by using Bochs.
</para>
<para>
FreeBSD: Should work, with limitations in specific areas (mainly
missing device/hardware support).
FreeBSD: This port is well maintained and should work with
limitations in specific areas (mainly missing device/hardware
support).
</para>
<para>
Linux/x86: Works, and as the most popular platform for both
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