Could Pipelight be compiled into an Android x86 application?

Hi,

it may theoretically be possible, but there are several problems involved. First of all the current aim of Wine for Android is to act as an APP which you can install. This involves a lot of tricks since apps are normally written in java introducing several disadvantages. The situation for Browsers plugins on Android is different since they are required to be native libraries. So a Wine version running on Android would try to integrate into the java environment while we need one which integrates with the native environment.

Moreover Android uses OpenGL ES for gpu acceleration while Wine only supports OpenGL. This would make it impossible to do gpu rendering resulting in a bad playback performance. I am also not sure how long browser plugins are supported on Android since Google is currently trying to get rid of NPAPI. Last but not least wine on Android is still beta and not available yet for the public.

Michael

So using a Qemu payload to simulate pipelight would be a bit overkill then?
On Apr 20, 2014 12:11 AM, "Michael Müller" <
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> Michael Müller proposed the following answer:
> Hi,
>
> it may theoretically be possible, but there are several problems
> involved. First of all the current aim of Wine for Android is to act as
> an APP which you can install. This involves a lot of tricks since apps
> are normally written in java introducing several disadvantages. The
> situation for Browsers plugins on Android is different since they are
> required to be native libraries. So a Wine version running on Android
> would try to integrate into the java environment while we need one which
> integrates with the native environment.
>
> Moreover Android uses OpenGL ES for gpu acceleration while Wine only
> supports OpenGL. This would make it impossible to do gpu rendering
> resulting in a bad playback performance. I am also not sure how long
> browser plugins are supported on Android since Google is currently
> trying to get rid of NPAPI. Last but not least wine on Android is still
> beta and not available yet for the public.
>
> Michael
>
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Hi,

there is no need to use Qemu if you are on a x86 system. Using a debian / ubuntu chroot with a X11 server for Android might be your best solution for now.

Michael