Desktop Steam client won't start on Winlator (Android)

[electrovoyage.]

So I decided to perform a little silliness and ran Wine on my phone and tried to install Steam. Unfortunately it never gets past "checking for updates", either getting stuck there or blaming the internet connection, which is completely functional, and Wine Internet Explorer works. Any tips?

[Zyro]

I'd have guessed this couldn't run at all, because your phone very likely has an ARM chip and Steam is for X86. I wonder why Internet Explorer works though...?

[Nathan]

There is Winlator, unless that's what you mean by Wine.

[DaMu]

Change your question title to: "Desktop Steam client won't start on phone"

[thetargos]

The Wine implementation that runs on Android has very limited x86 translation

[electrovoyage.]

Originally posted by Nathan:

There is Winlator, unless that's what you mean by Wine.

I am using Winlator, yes.

Originally posted by Zyro:

I'd have guesses this couldn't run at all, because your phone very likely has an ARM chip and Steam is for X86. I wonder why Internet Explorer works though...?

Winlator uses Box86/64, which lets x86 run on ARM

[electrovoyage.]

Somewhat solved by updating Winlator to version 10. It successfully fetches a new update but now it runs out of RAM before it can finish starting, and there's nothing I can do about it.

[grzegorz77]

Maybe you'll get help faster on the some raspberry forum.