Botoaca Andrei wrote:
Hi, probably this question was already posted, but i'd like an update / estimation to this. Can Wine run on 64bit processors (compiling + no chroot to 32bit environment)? For 32bit applications - i mean - not for 64 bit apps?
Wine can already bun on a 64 bits kernel. The easy way is to install a 32 bits restricted environment in a directory and chroot to it. For example, that is documented for Debian in https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960 . Basically, you have to debootstrap a new environment and install wine and wine-related packages (+ dependencies) in this environment after having chroot to it. The helper dchroot allows to create a more fiendly execution environment.
Another way is to compile wine and its libraries in 32 bits mode (-m32 in the flags). You'll also have to install some 321 bits libraries. Such a "multiarch" environment has been created for various 32-bits-not-yet-ported-to-64-bits packages in Ubuntu, such as Openoffice.org. Wine has not yet been ported this way, but I understand that Scott Ritchie (creator of the Ubuntu packages found on sourceforge) thinks of it.
You can also do it more easily for Gentoo. I saw at least two references toi this kind of installation. Google is your friend...
Is there an estimation for when wine will be compilable on 64bit arhitectures (even without support for 64bit apps)? Since as far as i worked through the source-code, it's only allocation / address manager issues.
As far as I can tell, those issues are more or less solved.
Regards,
You're welcome. HTH Emmanuel Charpentier _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
