[Elecraft] What I need and meant

[John Marvin]

Running a full Windows OS under emulation on a Raspberry Pi, just to run 
one app is not a very good idea (as Adrian pointed out).

An alternative would be to run QEMU on the Pi, which provides an x86 
execution environment, and then try to get the N3FJP software running 
under Linux Wine (Wine provides versions of the Windows libraries needed 
by a  Windows app that translate to linux libraries / system calls). I'm 
not saying this is an easy path to follow, but there are a lot of people 
who have succeeded doing this. The N3FJP software is simple enough that 
it would probably work reasonably well. Getting all the pieces in place 
though will be difficult, unless you can find an appropriate canned 
image for the RPi that already has Wine and QEMU installed properly.  
Here's a two year old one for a RPi 3 running Debian Stretch:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pi-qemu-wine/

People have been successful getting WIne running on Qemu on the RPi4 and 
newer Linux distributions, but I haven't seen a canned image for use by 
those who are not linux / QEMU experienced users. Here's a link to a 
tutorial that was used to create the above canned image (including a 
youtube video).  People have adapted that to make things work on the 
RPi4, etc :

https://www.novaspirit.com/2019/04/15/run-x86-arm/

There used to be a (non free) x86 environment for the Raspberry Pi 
called Exagear Desktop, but that is no longer available (but there are 
plenty of articles on the web giving instructions on how to run Wine on 
Exagear Desktop, so don't go down that rathole).

Anyway, there's a lot more web pages that discuss this, and perhaps 
there is one out there that is more recent that would allow you to get 
it all running on a RPi 4.

73,

John, AC0ZG

On 6/30/2021 10:38 AM, Mike Short wrote:
> Atomic Pi is an alternative for this. I have one running Win10 and logging
> app. 12v power.
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 11:51 KJ7SOY <kj7soy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately that’s a terrible idea. I’ve been using Pi’s for 8 years. I
>> currently have 23 of them deployed managing our home automation,
>> surveillance systems, and other assorted tasks. 12 are in a rack in my
>> rackmount cabinet and the rest are deployed around our property (6 acres).
>>
>> The two things they do NOT do well are run Windows and run Android. I’ve
>> tested multiple times, on multiple Pi’s (up to and including the 8GB PI 4)
>> with every variant that has ever claimed to run on the Pi. They don’t.
>> Period. Either they lack drivers, or they run slower than molasses in a
>> freezer. They have NEVER functioned, and given the Pi’s architecture and
>> their library demands likely never will. Virtualization makes no
>> difference. They just don’t work.
>>
>> Please don’t waste your time trying this. It’s truly not worth the time
>> you’d spend getting it installed.
>>
>> 73
>> -Adrian
>> KJ7SOY
>>
>>
>>