How to run windows applications in android

Hi guys welcome to the Mr.Ethical YT blog.If you are searching for "how to run windows applications in android "then you are reading the right article.Today we are going to learn how can we run .exe files in android with wine.We all know that most of windows applications are compiled for x86.So we are going to install box 86 with wine.

What is box86

The box86 is an emulator that lets you run x86 userspace tools on the ARM Linux systems, allowing such systems to execute the video games and other programs that have been compiled for the x86 Linux systems. Box86 is an alternative to the QEMU for user-mode emulation. The Box86 is also provides the dynamic recompilation as well as the functionality to intercept the dynamic library calls and forward them to equivalent native libraries, allowing the applications to run noteworthy faster than if they were fully emulated.

Installation

First of all you need to install the termux latest version from F-droid if you haven't installed it already.

After installing it open and update it's repositories.

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Install the wget package.

apt-get install wget

We need to change the architecture to 32 bit from 64 bit inorder to install Box86.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wmcbtech30/termux-prefix-switcher/master/termux-prefix-switcher

Executing the above script to switch to 32bit.

./termux-prefix-switcher

Install the proot-distro

apt-get install proot-distro

Install any distro you prefer I am going to choose ubuntu.

apt-get install proot-distro

proot-distro login ubuntu

Update and upgrade it's repositories.

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Now Install the sudo nano

apt-get install sudo nano

Add a user to ubuntu with any name(adduser anyname).In my case it's my name jithendar

adduser jithendar

It will asks you to enter a password .Enter a password which you want to set to the user.confirm the password by entering it again.

Now it asks you for some details like full name,Room no etc just ignore them .Skip them by pressing Enter .

We have added the user . Now we have to add this user in sudoers file.For that type the command given below

nano /etc/sudoers

You will see the sudoers file.Scrolldown you will see the text comment "User privilege specification" below this line you can see the root user this line look like

root ALL=(ALL:ALL)ALL

under this line we have to add the user.

jithendar ALL=(ALL:AKL)ALL

replace the the name "jithendar" with the name of the user you have added.

Save the changes you have done by pressing CTRL+s and exit by pressing CTRL+x.

Now remove .bashrc file.

rm .bashrc

Copy the .bashrc file which is in the user directory

cp /home/jithendar/.bashrc .

Replace the name "jithendar" with the username of yours.

logout from ubuntu by the command logout.

logout

Make a file with name ubuntu in the termux directory $PREFIX/bin

nano $PREFIX/bin

paste the below command.

proot-distro login --user jithendar ubuntu

Give your user name in the place of "jithendar"

Then save by pressing CTRL+s and exit by pressing CTRL+x

Give executable permissions to it.

chmod +x $PREFIX/bin/ubuntu

Now when you run the command ubuntu you will login in to the ubuntu as user you have added.

ubuntu

After running the command ubuntu you will get login into the ubuntu now update the ubuntu.

sudo apt update

Now it will ask the password enter the password you have set to the user.

When update gets finished install the Xubunt desktop by the command given below

sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop xfce4-terminal tigervnc-standalone-server

This command will take a while depending upon the internet connection speed wait until it gets finished .

Now run these two commands given belowone by one

echo "vncserver -geometry 1280x720 -xstartup /bin/startxfce4" >> /bin/vncstart.

echo "rm -rf /tmp && mkdir /tmp && vncserver -kill :1" >> /bin/vncstop

Give executable permissions to both vncstart and vncstop

chmod +x /bin/vncstart

chmod +x /bin/vncstop

That's it we have successfully installed Xubuntu GUI on our android phone.Lets run the Xubuntu by typing vncstart

vncstart

It will ask you for a password enter a password and verify then type n for View only password.

This command will start server for Xubuntu and don't remove the termux from background.

Now open the VNC Viewer app and click the plus symbol at bottom right of the screen.

We can see it will ask us two parameters one is Address and another is name.

In the Address section enter the localhost:1

localhost:1

In the Name section give any name and click on create.

Tap on the connect you have enter password you had given for vncstart command enter it and click on ok.

Now open terminal and install these dependencies.

sudo apt install gcc python3 build-essential cmake git wget -y

Clone the Box86 repository from github.

git clone https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86

change directory inside box86.

cd box86

Now compile the Box86.

mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ; make ; sudo make install

This will take some time wait until it's get finished.

Once the above process gets completed. Install the wine.

mkdir ~/wine ; wget https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/binaries/phoenicis/upstream-linux-x86/PlayOnLinux-wine-7.0-rc5-upstream-linux-x86.tar.gz ; tar -xvf PlayOnLinux-wine-7.0-rc5-upstream-linux-x86.tar.gz -C ~/wine/ ; echo "export BOX86_PATH=~/wine/bin/

Export the Box86 path