Article 6HKVE Win32Emu/DIY WOW: run RISC Win32 binaries on x86 Windows

Win32Emu/DIY WOW: run RISC Win32 binaries on x86 Windows

by
Thom Holwerda
from OSnews on (#6HKVE)

When the AXP64 build tools for Windows 2000 were discovered back in May 2023, there was a crucial problem. Not only was it difficult to test the compiled applications since you needed an exotic and rare DEC Alpha machine running a leaked version of Windows, it was also difficult to even compile the programs, since you needed the same DEC Alpha machine to run the compiler; there was no cross-compiler.

As a result, I began writing a program conceptually similar to WOW64 on Itanium (or WX86, or FX-32), only in reverse, to allow RISC Win32 programs to run on x86.

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