Wine 2.20 Continues Work On Direct3D, Preloader For ARM64

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 2.20 Continues Work On Direct3D, Preloader For ARM64

Arriving a bit off schedule due to this past weekend's WineConf 2017 where Wine 3.0 and future roadmap items were discussed, Wine 2.20 is now available for testing today...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-2.20-Released

[tildearrow]

Typo:

now handles interpolation modes in Direct3Dm improves metafile

[pinguinpc]

In this wine version add new library dependency (compiled wine): libkrb5-dev

[jacob]

I'm puzzled by the support for ARM64. Are there any windows apps built for ARM64?

[artivision]

I'm puzzled by the support for ARM64. Are there any windows apps built for ARM64?

No but mobile gpus have exceeded 500gflops and recompilers the 50% plus they save into cache.

[dragon321]

I'm puzzled by the support for ARM64. Are there any windows apps built for ARM64?

With CPU emulation (x86 to ARM) You can use this to run Windows x86 apps on ARM hardware. Microsoft presented something like this little time ago - binary translation which could run x86 apps on Windows ARM.

[VikingGe]

Hellblade finally became playable, but some graphical issues remain. Performance is pretty terrible though.

http://s1.bild.me/bilder/110417/7929097Bildschirmfoto-246.png

[grok]

I'm puzzled by the support for ARM64. Are there any windows apps built for ARM64?

A developer might port a Windows application or game by using Wine (e.g. a linux game that bundles Wine or Wine libraries) and might conceivably build it for ARM as well? Niche thing but might be used if desktop/laptop on ARM 64bit takes off. Or things like real linux distro on smartphone (chroot or bare metal).

[danieru]

With CPU emulation (x86 to ARM) You can use this to run Windows x86 apps on ARM hardware. Microsoft presented something like this little time ago - binary translation which could run x86 apps on Windows ARM.

Does that mean wine is now an emulator?

[ssorgatem]

Does that mean wine is now an emulator?

No. The CPU emulation part is handled by qemu