Box86 is an emulator for
x86 userspace tools on ARM Linux systems, allowing such systems to execute video games and other programs that have been compiled for x86 Linux systems. Box86 is an alternative to
QEMU for user-mode emulation. Box86 also provides
dynamic recompilation as well as functionality to intercept
dynamic library
In computing, a dynamic linker is the part of an operating system that loads and links the shared libraries needed by an executable when it is executed (at "run time"), by copying the content of libraries from persistent storage to RAM, filling ...
calls and forward them to equivalent native libraries, allowing applications to run significantly faster than if they were fully emulated.
Box86 also has limited support for running
Wine, allowing users to run x86 Windows apps on ARM devices like the
Raspberry Pi.
Ptitseb has also released Box64, the
ARM64 equivalent of Box86 that helps run
x64 programs instead of x86.
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Free emulation software
Linux emulation software
X86 emulators
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