I've never thought to try this.
Now I have to try this.
Now I have to try this.
Installation requires the 32 bit Wine runtime, which will require pulling in your distro's 32 bit libs. After that set
export WINEARCH="win32"
It is worth noting that Office 97 + all deps required for 32 bit Wine is still a smaller installation size than any recent Office.
- The 64-bit Windows-on-Windows (WoW64) architecture is implemented, and supports running a 32-bit Windows application inside a 64-bit Unix host process, using thunks to map 32-bit NT system calls to the 64-bit NTDLL.
- WoW64 thunks are implemented for most Unix libraries, enabling a 32-bit PE module to call a 64-bit Unix library. Once the remaining modules are converted to PE, this will make it possible to run 32-bit applications without installing 32-bit Unix libraries.
Available at https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine if you want to use a free build for example.
For the more adventurous, years ago there was a"special" version of Delphi 7 around called like "Delphi 7.2 second edition" which essentially was to plain Delphi what the "ultra lite" versions of the OS were to XP back then: the author removed all the cruft, applied lots of optimizations here and there making the compiler a lot faster and the entire package much smaller. If memory serves, the entire installation file was less than 50MB. It literally flied on old machines. Was it legal? Definitely not, but it was probably safe; when installed on Windows it didn't trigger any AV.