Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

Oh yes Counter-Strike on N900 here I come! hahaha I know it's not possible, but one can dream right? :) :)

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

The source code is included for that $10? If so, an attempt could be made to compile it against winelib. If not, then the announcement made at the start of this thread has moved Ecco Pro no closer to running on Maemo.

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

How is this being done, I know he is doing ssh first but how does all that hang together ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfnibPiFDsk

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

X forwarding, theres a page in the wiki on doing in reverse (phone to desktop screen)

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

That video is super neat, Wine on the N900 at it's best.

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

On this video wine is not running on the N900 but on linux PC with the N900 logged in via openssh and opening photoshop on wine.
Then the X forwarding feature of openssh is used to send keyboard/mouse events from N900 to the PC and screen events from PC to N900. So in this video, the N900 only act like a dedicated screen/keyboard/mouse for photoshop.

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

No, the source code is NOT included (much to many people's chagrin). I thought since it can run under WINE on desktop Linux, e.g., Ubuntu, it could likely run under WINE on a tablet. I'm wrong?

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

The problem here being that the processor on a desktop PC and the processor in the n900 are different architectures. Desktop PCs and laptops use x86 (and x86_64 for 64-bit) processors while the n900 (along with most other phones) uses an ARM processor. You can't take a program that has been compiled for one architecture and run it on another, it just won't work, you can only run it using an emulator and an emulator takes a lot of processing power to just to emulate a much slower processor.

WINE for desktop Linux just needs to pretend to be Windows to get a program to run, it doesn't need to emulate a different processor. WINE for ARM would need to emulate an x86 processor as well as pretending to be Windows if it were to run a regular Windows program.

What WINE for ARM provides is a easy way to port programs written for Windows to Linux-based ARM devices using winelib, but you need the source code so you can recompile the program to run on an ARM processor.

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

Saw an updated message on Onion's blog:

Update 15.10.2010:
Using desktop mode makes using wine much nicer and keyboard input works too. Running winecfg is a bit problematic as it won't fit the screen properly but editing ~/.wine/user.reg and adding the following lines in the end enables desktop mode:

[Software\\Wine\\Explorer] 1287126526
"Desktop"="Default"

[Software\\Wine\\Explorer\\Desktops] 1287126530
"Default"="800x480"

Re: Wine 1.3.4 on arm
 

The desktop (read below) makes Wine on the N900 look superb, even as a proof-of-concept.