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Great News: Wine Runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux

posted by takyon on Friday February 10 2017, @12:45AM   
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DannyB writes:

According to this, Wine now runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

In build 15025, wine64-development runs directly on the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

This will be applauded as a great accomplishment for those who need to run Windows executables.

No word on whether Cygwin will run on Wine running on Windows Subsystem for Linux. Also of interest would be to get Wine to be able to run Windows Subsystem for Linux on Wine.

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• Re:32/64 bit? Re:32/64 bit? (Score: 1) by toddestan on Friday February 10 2017, @11:54PM

  by toddestan (4982) on Friday February 10 2017, @11:54PM (#465631)

  I don't know anything about how CentOS does things, but on a 64-bit Linux system, if you want to run 32-bit software you need the "multilib" versions of the libraries. This includes 32-bit Windows software under Wine. If you stick with open source software and packages for your distro, it almost never comes up because those are all 64-bit. But it comes up with propriety software and also with Wine because a lot of Windows software isn't pure 64-bit (and even if it is, the installer may not be 64-bit). So for Wine you almost always will need the "multilib" libraries.

  For Slackware, instructions to get multilib are here: http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:multilib [slackware.com]
  Other distributions (like Ubuntu) may already be multilib.

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• Re:32/64 bit? (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Monday February 13 2017, @12:36PM

  by opinionated_science (4031) on Monday February 13 2017, @12:36PM (#466550)

  That's rings a bell....thanks I'll try and look for multilib on this system.

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