mirkobrombin/raven
A Windows your apps recognize.
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A Windows your apps recognize. Website and documentation Raven runs Windows applications on Linux. You install them with their own installers, the same ones you would use on a PC, and they start: no virtual machine, no winetricks, no DLL overrides. The program's code runs directly on your CPU, inside a sandbox where it cannot reach Linux. Every call it makes to the system is answered by Raven, which plays the part of the Windows kernel and its services: processes and threads, files, the registry, windows and input. Graphics go to Wayland and Vulkan, with DXVK and vkd3d-proton for Direct3D. The tested setup also uses libpng 1.6.59, a CPU build of Skia with the Liberation fonts, DXVK and vkd3d-proton; the scripts/provision-.py tools download the pinned versions. Raven is built from source for now: Then run an installer, or any program: This minimal build runs console programs and simple windows. Installers…
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A Windows your apps recognize.
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- Owner
- mirkobrombin
- Primary language
- C++
- Stars
- 570
- Forks
- 17
- Open issues + pull requests
- 12
- License
- Other
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- main
- Created
- 2026-10-24T17:13:42.000Z
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- 2026-10-31T08:16:32.000Z
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