Running Windows software on ARM with Wine

The concept of running Wine on ARM devices isn’t new. StarCraft (as well as Diablo 1 & 2) is playable on ARM through Wine thanks to the insanely hard work of the Lithuanian hacker notaz. But while working on my project I couldn’t find anything but scattered bits of information and sometimes there was even nothing at all. So this guide will walk you trough the steps required to execute Windows software with Wine on ARM devices running *nix. I specifically focus on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running Raspbian and here’s a screenshot of Notepad++ running there.

Detailed article about running Windows software on ARM Linux using Wine, including how to recompile x86 Windows applications to ARM.