Program for .exe files

Ryuzaki · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:16 pm Post subject: Program for .exe files

Just wondering what a good program is for running a .exe file. I've been told Wine is good and bad, so I don't know if there's something else I should use, or better.
And is there any kind of stetting up I need to do for the .exe?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:22 pm Post subject:

Ryuzaki,

WINE is it
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Ryuzaki · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject:

Alrght thanks. It's just that I was told a while ago by someone that I can't (or shouldn't) rely on WINE for everything, but I just finished talking to him, and I misunderstood what he said. So thanks, for answering a really n00bish question. lol

xaviermiller · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:09 am Post subject:

If the program is a .Net application, you can also try mono (but I don't know how to use Mono).
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tomk · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:13 am Post subject:

Moved from Gamers & Players to Other Things Gentoo as it's not specifically about games.
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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

or windows, using virtualization tools

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:00 am Post subject:

If you want to run Windows .exe's natively WINE is the only option. Whether it will run your program or not; whether it is good or bad; or whether it is heavenly or evil is another question. But it's the only option, no alternative there.

If you don't mind using virtualization then you can just install Windows into any VM (vbox, vmware, qemu...) and then use that application inside the Windows VM.

Else, you can just dual boot.

Mono is intended to compile .NET source code, another question is if you will be able to compile your program even if you own the source (you won't if it relies on Windows or DirectX specific APIs anyway). But it won't help you in any case when it comes to run .exe files. Only WINE (as far as I know) can do that.

xaviermiller · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:03 am Post subject:

Are you sure ? Last time I tried mono (4 years ago ?), I could execute Windows .Net files through Mono run-time.
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i92guboj · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:15 am Post subject:

No, I am not sure, that's why I added the "as far as I know". However I should have worded the first part differently. Thanks for the pointer. You are surely right about that, since I know nothing about mono at all.

Manko10 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Posts: 105

Mono is an open implementation of Microsoft's .NET platform. Programs written in one of the .NET dialects (C#, VB.NET etc.) are completely compatible to each other since they are compiled to byte code as known from Java. For this reason .NET programs are platform independent. The only problem is that .NET is not open source. Thus Mono is a separate project with some proprietary extensions and also the lack of some "native" .NET features. Ideally a .NET program should work with Mono and vice versa but in reality that's no always the case.

To run a program with Mono just type:

Section_8 · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 627

If you want to know whether your .exe will run with wine, you can look it up in the app database: http://appdb.winehq.org/