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by scrollaway 3500 days ago
Wine already does run on Windows (not well), no WSL needed. Some users already use it to play old games that only run on Win 98 for example.
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lnternet 3500 days ago
Source?

(Are you referring to the use of software like Colinux and Andlinux? Those only worked on 32-bit systems last time I checked...)

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scrollaway 3500 days ago
I haven't been involved with Wine in a long time but the Wine test suite itself is regularly run on Windows:

https://test.winehq.org/data/

Here's an admittedly very old article by Dan Kegel on how to compile it on Windows: http://www.kegel.com/wine/wow.html

But yeah, I don't think it's explicitly supported since it's not their target market :) Codeweavers' focus is running Windows apps on Mac and Linux (Crossover - go support them! https://www.codeweavers.com/)

Edit: It looks like they completely dropped support for it as I can't find any of the old articles anymore; Seems it only supports mingw setup now. https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More

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voltagex_ 3500 days ago
What's the difference between Wine, Crossover and PlayOnLinux?
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scrollaway 3500 days ago
Crossover is a commercial version of Wine which includes a bunch of extra hacks for popular applications. It comes with support. It's how the Wine project pays salaries.

PlayOnLinux is a Wine wrapper which has preset configurations (best known working wine version and dll overrides) for a ton of popular games/software. Think of it like a virtualenv on steroids.

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