WinBridge 0.4.0

The roadmap is complete: every milestone from the original plan has shipped.

New in 0.4.0

Build (M3)

• winbridge package <dir> builds a real NSIS installer for your app — makensis runs under WinBridge's own managed Wine, so one pinned NSIS behaves identically on every distro. Verified end to end: installer built, run with /S, payload and uninstaller landing in C:\Program Files.
• MSVC-target C/C++ via --toolchain msvc (clang-cl + the Windows SDK fetched by winbridge doctor --install msvc — an explicit, size-labelled opt-in, never a silent download). The cheap MinGW/Zig path stays the default.
• Authenticode signing scaffolding via osslsigncode: package --sign cert.pfx, passphrase never on a command line.
• winbridge doctor --install <component> bootstraps go, zig, nsis, or the MSVC SDK into your home directory — no sudo.

Run (M5)

• Compatibility recipes: winbridge recipe show <installer.exe> fingerprints an installer and finds a community recipe (winetricks verbs, DLL overrides, DXVK); recipe apply sets the app's prefix up in one step. Recipes are declarative data, strictly validated, contributable by PR — see recipes/README.md.
• winbridge vm app <path> streams an app that Wine cannot run from the Windows VM as a seamless window (FreeRDP RemoteApp).

Distribution and community (M6)

• Releases are now built by CI from the version tag — this release's assets were produced that way.
• Debian source packaging for the PPA, a Flatpak manifest, and docs/distribution.md covering every channel.
• winbridge report produces a privacy-scrubbed hardware/compatibility report matching the hardware-report issue template — nothing is transmitted; you choose what to share. COMPATIBILITY.md seeds the community-maintained list.

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

curl -LO https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/WinBridge/releases/download/v0.4.0/winbridge_0.4.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./winbridge_0.4.0-1_amd64.deb
winbridge doctor

Any Linux x86-64 (no root needed):

curl -LO https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/WinBridge/releases/download/v0.4.0/winbridge-0.4.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xzf winbridge-0.4.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
install -Dm755 winbridge-0.4.0-linux-x64/winbridge ~/.local/bin/winbridge
winbridge doctor

Verify with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS. 690 tests green; security-audited before tagging.

Guide: WinBridge on learn.dhivalabs.com: install steps, a beginner guide and troubleshooting.

WinBridge 0.3.0

M4 complete: WinBridge now covers the full run-Windows-apps launcher story.

New in 0.3.0

• DXVK — winbridge run app.exe --dxvk renders Direct3D 8/9/10/11 through Vulkan (DXVK 3.0.2, checksum-verified). The setting is sticky per app: enable once, every later run keeps it; --no-dxvk turns it back off. winbridge doctor reports whether a Vulkan loader is present, and --dxvk explains itself rather than failing cryptically when one is not.
• Desktop launcher entries — winbridge desktop add app.exe --name "My App" puts the app in your desktop launcher like any native application; desktop list and desktop remove manage the entries. Entries are ownership-marked, so removal can never touch a file WinBridge did not create.
• winetricks — winbridge prefix tricks <app> corefonts vcrun2019 installs fonts, redistributables and tweaks into one app's prefix, using a tag-pinned, checksum-verified winetricks driven by WinBridge's own Wine. Note: the verbs themselves download third-party redistributables that winetricks (not WinBridge) checksums — see docs/running.md.
• Prefix management — winbridge prefix list (shows per-app DXVK state), prefix delete <app>, prefix tricks. run --list-prefixes still works but is deprecated.
• Every download WinBridge performs — Wine, DXVK, winetricks — now flows through one pinned-and-verified code path; nothing unverified is ever executed.

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

curl -LO https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/WinBridge/releases/download/v0.3.0/winbridge_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./winbridge_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb
winbridge doctor

Any Linux x86-64 (no root needed):

curl -LO https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/WinBridge/releases/download/v0.3.0/winbridge-0.3.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xzf winbridge-0.3.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
install -Dm755 winbridge ~/.local/bin/winbridge
winbridge doctor

Verify downloads with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS. Full suite green in CI.

WinBridge 0.2.0

WinBridge now runs Windows apps as well as building them — the all-in-one loop on one Linux machine:

winbridge build ./myapp
winbridge run myapp/build/winbridge/windows-x64/myapp.exe

New in 0.2.0

• winbridge run <app.exe> — run Windows programs on Linux. WinBridge downloads and manages its own Wine runtime (Kron4ek Wine 11.14 wow64 build, checksum-verified before it is ever unpacked; nothing runs without a verification stamp). No system Wine, no root, nothing to configure.
• One isolated prefix per app under ~/.local/share/winbridge/prefixes/ — --prefix to override, --list-prefixes to see them, and resetting an app is deleting one directory.
• The executable is PE-verified before launch, its output streams live, and its exit code becomes winbridge run's own.
• Process handling fix: commands that leave background daemons behind (Wine's wineserver, and anything like it) no longer hang the CLI.

First run installs the runtime (~94 MB) and bootstraps the app's prefix, which takes a few minutes once; after that, runs start in well under a second. Not yet included (next M4 slices): DXVK for Direct3D, .desktop launcher entries, winetricks recipes — see docs/running.md.

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

curl -LO https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/WinBridge/releases/download/v0.2.0/winbridge_0.2.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./winbridge_0.2.0-1_amd64.deb
winbridge doctor

Any Linux x86-64 (no root needed):

curl -LO https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/WinBridge/releases/download/v0.2.0/winbridge-0.2.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xzf winbridge-0.2.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
install -Dm755 winbridge ~/.local/bin/winbridge
winbridge doctor

Verify downloads with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

394 tests green in CI. Building still covers Go, Rust, .NET, C/C++ natively and Flutter through the build VM.

WinBridge 0.1.0

The first release of WinBridge: build Windows apps from Linux, on any Linux.

What's included

• winbridge build cross-compiles Go, Rust, .NET, and C/C++ projects to Windows x64 — every produced artifact is byte-verified as a genuine PE32+ Windows executable before the build is reported successful.
• Flutter projects build through a headless Windows VM over SSH: see docs/vm-setup.md.
• winbridge vm usb list / winbridge vm usb passthrough hand USB devices to the VM so their Windows drivers can run there, and scripts/printing/ bridges Windows-only printers. The honest device playbook is in docs/devices.md.
• winbridge doctor reports every toolchain, resolved from PATH plus ~/.cache/winbridge/toolchains — bootstrapped toolchains work without sudo.

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

curl -LO https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/WinBridge/releases/download/v0.1.0/winbridge_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./winbridge_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb
winbridge doctor

Any Linux x86-64 (no root needed):

curl -LO https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/WinBridge/releases/download/v0.1.0/winbridge-0.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xzf winbridge-0.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
install -Dm755 winbridge ~/.local/bin/winbridge
winbridge doctor

Cross-compilers are resolved at run time; winbridge doctor tells you exactly what's present and what's missing.

Verify downloads with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

352 tests green in CI, including end-to-end cross-compiles from all four native toolchains.