[lnternet]

Is it possible to run Wine on Windows (without resorting to Windows 10 and WSL)?

[jklehm]

To some extent on the SUA.[0] I'm curious to see someone write up an attempt with the WSL.[1]

[0] https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More#Psst..._Even_Microso...

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...

[kej]

Would this be for running 16 bit programs on 64 bit Windows, or is there another use case I'm not thinking of?

[lnternet]

There are quite a few older Win32 games that won't run on modern Windows systems despite the built-in compatibility modes.

[simlevesque]

If these games say they need "*.dll" to run, you can copy it from Wine into the game folder and the game will run. YMMV.

[0xcde4c3db]

IIRC some of the higher-level DLLs can be compiled for Windows (which is done sometimes for testing, or by ReactOS to ship an actual Windows clone), but the core ones like kernel32, ntdll, user32, and gdi are too tied into the POSIX/NT abstractions.