Any practical use cases come to mind? Could you actually interact from Excel cells with Linux userspace, e.g. running a cell's value through a bash script as if applying a formula?
nogajun 1 hours ago [-]
Linux can run on Excel, but not Excel on Linux.
tinktank 2 hours ago [-]
This is the insanity that I miss.
aussieguy1234 10 minutes ago [-]
Excel > Linux > Wine > Excel...to infinity?
valorzard 1 hours ago [-]
Would this same trick work on LibreOffice Calc?
shakna 33 minutes ago [-]
Probably not. It calls out to a DLL library for most of the work. One that, unfortunately, is 32bit.
Libre Calc can load 64bit Excel plugins, but not 32bit (at the moment).
necovek 3 hours ago [-]
It runs on neither MacOS nor Excel cloud though, as it depends on a Windows DLL.
yjftsjthsd-h 2 hours ago [-]
Wouldn't help with cloud of course, but there's WINE for macOS, isn't there? Or does that version of Excel not allow loading binary libraries such that you could hand it a DLL if WINE translated it?
nxobject 2 hours ago [-]
mini-rv32ima is incredibly compact -- I imagine a translation to VBA might not be too hard.
dmitrygr 2 hours ago [-]
“ The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet. ”
Not really in excel. Excel is just the console. Emulator is a native DLL
zipping1549 33 minutes ago [-]
Still funny
jayd16 1 hours ago [-]
Excshell
ChocolateGod 32 minutes ago [-]
Execell
userbinator 3 hours ago [-]
Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to run WINE in it, and thus another Excel inside that.
nailer 4 hours ago [-]
I just posted the ‘doom on a lightning adapter’ story, and saw this in submissions. I’ll have to tip my hat to the better bizarre ‘X on Y’ post. You win this time, radeeyate.
Libre Calc can load 64bit Excel plugins, but not 32bit (at the moment).
Not really in excel. Excel is just the console. Emulator is a native DLL