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Under what hardware platform(s) and operating system(s) will Wine(Lib) run?

April 26, 2017hardware Lib operating system Platform run Wine

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Under what hardware platform(s) and operating system(s) will Wine(Lib) run?

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Wine is being developed specifically to run on the Intel x86 class of CPUs under certain UNIXes that run on this platform. Winelib however is capable of porting the Windows applications source code to other platforms also, not only x86. Thus running Windows binaries on other platforms (e.g. Mac OS X on PowerPC) using just Wine is not 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. These are the platforms supported by Wine. Winelib support for other platforms keeps evolving, so it’s not specifically listed here. NetBSD, OpenBSD, UnixWare, and SCO OpenServer 5 worked at one time, but Wine now requires kernel-level threads which are not currently available (or understood by the Wine team) on those platforms. The Wine development team hopes to attract the interest of other commercial UNIX and UNIX clone vendors as well.