amd64 and wine

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> writes:

Peter> On Friday 04 February 2005 03:51 am, Nick Lozinsky wrote:
>> Hello:
>> 
>> Running FreeBSD5.3-STABLE on AMD64 3200+; I've attempted to `make
>> install' wine from the ports tree, and surprisingle enough, it is
>> only able to compile on I386 architectures. I looked through the
>> Makefile, and saw the i386 support, only. Does wine have any
>> support on amd64, or is it possible to compile on amd64 for
>> backward 32-bit compatibility?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.

Peter> I'm sorry to say that no, it isn't likely in the short term.
Peter> Wine depends on the USER_LDT features to use a custom x86
Peter> segmentation table within a user process.  The amd64 kernel
Peter> does not have this.  I have been thinking about how to
Peter> implement this in a lower-cost way than what currently happens
Peter> on the i386 kernel though.  -- Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org;
Peter> peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for
Peter> nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5

Well... the other question is: does AMD64 run ia32 executables?

Dave.

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