windows

Windows apps on A733 via Hangover (trixie / 6.6)

Run Windows applications on the Cubie A7A using Hangover 11.9 = wine 11.9 with FEX/box64 WoW64 (x64 -> FEX, x86-32 -> wowbox64). Two launchers cover the two cases: console apps and GUI apps. For GPU Direct3D see ../gpu/dxvk/ (a separate wine prefix

• DXVK-Sarek).

Bring your own Windows app binaries — none are bundled. Prefix: ~/.wine-hangover.

Launchers

Launcher	For	GPU / GL
winrun <app.exe>	CLI / console Windows apps	n/a (no window)
guirun <app.exe>	GUI Windows apps	software-GL window (llvmpipe)

• winrun runs console apps under Hangover's WoW64 (x64 via FEX, x86-32 via wowbox64).
• guirun opens a real window but renders GL with software llvmpipe, because the native PowerVR GL blob deadlocks wine's graphics init (this is the whole reason a software GL context is forced). Fine for productivity apps; GL/3D windows are CPU-rendered. A benign libEGL ... failed to open llvmpipe /usr/local/lib/dri/... warning may appear (wrong search path) — the app falls back and renders fine; it's cosmetic.

For GPU-accelerated 3D in a Windows app, use D3D via DXVK-Sarek (../gpu/dxvk/, the d3drun launcher, prefix ~/.wine-dxvk) — that path runs the render on the real GPU.

Verified apps

App	Launcher	Result
7-Zip 24.08 (7z.exe compress / test / extract / list)	winrun	PASS — full workflow, byte-perfect (all MD5s match), exit 0
7-Zip benchmark (7z b)	winrun	PASS — multithreaded (2T) LZMA codec
Notepad (notepad.exe)	guirun	PASS — real titled window, clean lifecycle
WordPad (wordpad.exe)	guirun	PASS — real window + toolbar/ruler
7-Zip File Manager (7zFM.exe)	guirun	PASS — real window + file-list

These are real applications doing real work (the 7-Zip CLI run is a full compress/verify/extract with byte-perfect integrity, not a smoke test), with real windows and clean SIGTERM lifecycle.

Relationship to the emulator layer

Hangover invokes its own WoW64 interpreters directly, so it is independent of the Linux binfmt routing (FEX-as-default for bare ./prog.x86_64). The static-glibc-MT box64 issue that affects Linux binaries (see ../box64/) does not apply to the Windows path — Hangover's wowbox64 handles the Win32 x86-32 side, FEX handles x64.