Box86 with Wine on Android
Hi forks, In this Article we will see how we can install box86 + wine on Android without Root.
Box86 is a emulator to run x86 apps on arm system, and we can also use wine with it and with combination of both we will be able to run windows apps (.exe) in it.
Prerequisite :
Must have 32 bit arch, if you have 64 bitto change it to 32 bit
Any linux distro installed like.
Installation :
As I said you need to have any linux distro installed, Here I will be doing this on UBUNTU 22 with xfce desktop.
So first you need to login to your linux distro
proot-distro login ubuntu
Command may be different if you are using different linux distro.
Next we have to install some dependencies
sudo apt update ; sudo apt install python3 gcc build-essential cmake git wget -y
Once the dependencies are installed then, clone box86 and change directory to it
cd ~ ; git clone https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 ; cd box86
Now its time to compile box86
mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ; make ; sudo make install
Once the above process finished, the we need to get wine
mkdir ~/wine ; wget https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/binaries/phoenicis/upstream-linux-x86/PlayOnLinux-wine-7.0-rc5-upstream-linux-x86.tar.gz ; tar -xvf PlayOnLinux-wine-7.0-rc5-upstream-linux-x86.tar.gz -C ~/wine/ ; echo "export BOX86_PATH=~/wine/bin/
export BOX86_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/wine/lib/
export BOX86_LOG=1" >> ~/.bashrc
And thats it, just relogin to your distro and start using it, for example : running winrar
box86 wine winrar.exe