loading linux 32 bit printer drivers possible on amd64?

[Anthony Jenkins]

You might try reusing a portion of the steps used by freebsd-emulation to build a 32-bit Wine (http://www.winehq.org/) for amd64:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#Wine_on_FreeBSD.2BAC8-amd64

Anthony Jenkins

>________________________________
> From: David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net>
>To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> 
>Cc: emulation at freebsd.org 
>Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:26 AM
>Subject: Re: loading linux 32 bit printer drivers possible on amd64?
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>On Tuesday 22 November 2011 03:24:24 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> why not with the freebsd32 emulation? This is one emulation layer less to
>> care about. I do not know if this is feasible, I haven't looked if pips
>> has some libs and where they shall be put, but as a first try you could
>> extract the contents of the pips packages and put them into the 32bit
>> locations.
>> 
>> Bye,
>> Alexander.
>Hi
>
>OK  sounds sensibel but how do I get there?
>
>I do not have a compat/freebsd32 directory. I do have 
>/usr/src/compat/freebsd32.
>
>Is freebsd32 a kernel install option or can it be added without rebuilding the 
>kernel?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>David
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