During MeeGo days we kept a close eye on Wine (“Wine Is Not an Emulator”) development, and now release 1.7.21 is available. At the moment I am not aware of any Tizen ports of Wine, and I would definitely be interested to see if anyone has made any progress.
What is Wine?
… is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
What’s new in this release (see below for details)
- Support for critical sections in the C runtime.
- Unicode data updated to Unicode 7.0.
- Support for interlaced PNG encoding.
- Initial stub for the Packager library.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available from the following locations
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.21.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.21.tar.bz2
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
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