[INFO] Wine for Android

Does it not compile on ARM or what is the holdup? Can an ARM build of wine still run x86 windows binaries? I can see getting this ported into android/davlik gui might take some time but what about running it in like an X server on the phone and vncing to it from the android ui

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Does it not compile on ARM or what is the holdup? Can an ARM build of wine still run x86 windows binaries? I can see getting this ported into android/davlik gui might take some time but what about running it in like an X server on the phone and vncing to it from the android ui

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As far as I know, Xorg conflicts with surface flinger, so the only option is to run a vnc viewer to connect to the x server. The upside is that it's local instead of across a network so it is every bit as snappy as native Xorg. The downside is (at least in my experience) that compositing and special effects don't seem to work over vnc.

I wasn't done, but my cat head butted my phone lol..

Anyway, once you've set up a full emdebian environment using something like botbrew basil, I don't see why work couldn't start on porting wine and testing it and Windows applications. I know that's already in the works according to the article earlier in the thread, but I think this was could also work and you're definitely on the right track

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What do you guys think About wine on android x86 project?

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Right now, if you have an X86 Android phone, you can install the following to get Wine on Android:
1. XServer-XSDL - the best X server for Android
2. Linux Deploy - good set of chroot distros
3. SSH client - I like VXConnect

Here are the steps:
1. Start up XServer-XSDL.
2. Deploy a chroot using Linux Deploy with ONLY SSH. You don't need X, Framebuffer or VNC
3. use SSH client to ssh into your distro, default username: android ; default password: changeme
4. change your password
5. sudo apt-get install wine <-- this will grab the Wine package for your distro
6. export DISPLAY=:0 <-- tells your distro that your X server is local and port 0
7. for your first Wine run: winecfg
8. Press Tasks button to get out of SSH.
9. Select XServer-XSDL from the tasks list and you will see the Wine config starting
10. Accept whatever the config is

Now, Wine is prepped and ready to run on XServer-XSDL.

Tab over to your SSH session to start stuff up and then tab over to XServer-XSDL