• bruhduh
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    911 months ago

    X86 to arm will become easier with this as box64 could handle everything now

    • @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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      211 months ago

      Does this change run the 32-bit .exe using x86_64 instructions? From the description it just sounds like it allows 64-bit Linux libraries to be used in place of 32-bit ones, but that the Windows layer still operates in native 32-bit mode. This means there is still a need to emulate 32-bit x86 instructions which I don’t think box64 can do at this time (x86_32 translates to arm32 with box86, x86_64 translates to arm64 with box64). If box86 could translate x86_32 to arm64 then this might work as Wine would handle the conversion between 32 and 64 bit addressing and argument passing into the libraries but I’m not familiar with the inner workings there.

      • bruhduh
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        211 months ago

        Thanks for correction, not everything, but more