Hello everyone, welcome back to my Blog, in today's article I'm gonna show you how to setup wine on 32-bits Android phones, before moving forward to the Installation procedures, you should make sure you read the article I made on how to install Box86 on Android, as wine on Armhf(32-bits) devices completely depends on Box86 to function. You can read the article here, After installing box86 On Your Terminal, you can now proceed with wine setup on your Android phone
NOTE: this Tutorial supports 32bit devices only, if your device is 64-bit then learn how to change your termux Prefix to 32-bit by reading this article before proceeding with this installation.
Prerequisites:
Procedures:
Login to your terminal and install wget, to install wget, you can use the command:
apt install wget
After installing wget, we're going to wine tarball from playonlinux, to do that, use the command :
wget https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/binaries/phoenicis/upstream-linux-x86/PlayOnLinux-wine-7.0-rc5-upstream-linux-x86.tar.gz
After Download is complete Make a new directory and name it 'wine' , you can do that with the command;
the command
mkdir wine
Now we're going to extract the playonlinux wine Tarball to the wine folder that we just created, to do that you can use the command;
tar -xvf PlayOnLinux-wine-7.0-rc5-upstream-linux-x86.tar.gz -C wine/
Now we connect wine to box86 in the bashrc file using the command;
echo "export BOX86_PATH=~/wine/bin
export BOX86_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/wine/lib
export BOX86_LOG=1" >> ~/.bashrc
Now you can login to your Terminal GUI and use wine . To configure wine Windows on your Gui use the command;
box86 wine winecfg
Below are some examples of how to Use wine.
1. To Open wine windows file manager, you can type the below command on your Terminal.
box86 wine explorer
2. To launch Applications on wine you can use the command;
box86 wine filename
Example is a WinRAR 32-bits file I downloaded to my terminal, I installed it with the command
- box86 wine winrar-x32-611.exe
Watch the video tutorial below to see exactly how this is done in practical, And you can leave me a message in the comments section below if you have a question regarding this article