Install Hangover on Raspberry Pi

Hangover

Hangover runs simple Win64 and Win32 applications on arm64 Linux. Only the application is emulated instead of a whole Wine installation.

Hangover can be used in place of the Wine app on Pi-Apps. It may be worth trying this to see if something that did not run on the emulated Wine will run here.
For example, one app (tested by Botspot) failed to launch the installer on emulated Wine (x64), got stuck installing on Hangover with the Box64 emulator, and successfully installed with the FEX emulator selected. (see how to select an emulator below)

If you have Wine installed already, clicking Install here will uninstall Wine first. Do note that installed applications and configuration left over from Wine in ~/.wine will need to be removed or renamed, as it appears Hangover cannot import it.

Examples on how to run:
$ wine your_x86_64_application.exe # Uses FEX for 64-bit apps
$ wine your_x86_application.exe # To use Box64 for 32-bit apps
$ HODLL=libwow64fex.dll wine your_x86_application.exe # To use FEX for 32-bit apps
$ HODLL=xtajit.dll taskset -c 1 wine your_x86_application.exe # To use QEMU for 32-bit apps (limited to 1 core to workaround a bug)

For more information see https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/blob/master/README.md

Fortunately, Hangover is very easy to install on your Raspberry Pi in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Raspberry Pi.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install Hangover.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, which is currently version Bookworm.
Raspberry Pi OS has 32-bit and 64-bit variants, both of which will run on most Raspberry Pi computers, including the Pi 3, Pi 4, and Pi5.
Hangover will only run on PiOS 64-bit. Pi-Apps will not let you install Hangover on PiOS 32-bit.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install Hangover

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install Hangover.
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the Tools category, which leads to the Emulation category.

Now scroll down to find Hangover in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install Hangover for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot, theofficialgman, and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io