wibo

A minimal, low-fuss wrapper that can run really simple command-line 32-bit Windows binaries on Linux - with less faff and fewer dependencies than WINE.

Don't run this on any untrusted executables, I implore you. (Or probably just don't run it at all... :p)

Building

cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
cmake --build build --target wibo

Set -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release to produce an optimized binary instead.

Running

./build/wibo /path/to/program.exe [arguments...]

Supported command line options:

• --help: Print usage information.
• -D, --debug: Enable shim debug logging (equivalent to WIBO_DEBUG=1).
• -C DIR, --chdir DIR, --chdir=DIR: Change to DIR before running the guest program.
• --cmdline STRING, --cmdline=STRING: Use STRING as the exact guest command line. (Including the program name as the first argument.)
• --: Stop option parsing; following arguments are interpreted as the exact guest command line. (Including the program name as the first argument.)

Tests

Self-checking Windows fixtures run through CTest. They require a 32-bit MinGW cross toolchain (i686-w64-mingw32-gcc and i686-w64-mingw32-windres).

With the toolchain installed:

cmake -B build -DBUILD_TESTING=ON
cmake --build build
ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure

This will cross-compile the fixture executables, run them through wibo, and fail if any WinAPI expectations are not met.

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Rough to-do list:

• Implement more APIs

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Related projects:

• taviso/loadlibrary
• evmar/retrowin32