Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.36 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)
Martin Simmons
martin at lispworks.com
Wed Jan 11 16:35:24 UTC 2012
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:20:04 -0600, Chuck Burns said:
>
> On 01/10/12 10:49, David Naylor wrote:
> > I wasn't aware of WoW64 (and how it will make my packages redundent :->). I
> > see there are two wiki pages:
> > + http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64
> > + http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64ForPackagers
> >
> > The latter makes this statement "Wine 64bit works at the moment only on
> > Linux." which would indicate that, at this stage, FreeBSD is precluded. That,
> > however, is just my speculation.
> >
> > To answer your question directly, I have put no thought or effort into wine64.
>
> There is still a need for the 32bit wine, as the wow64 build will ONLY
> run 64bit windows apps, so for the majority of applications and games,
> we'll still need the 32bit wine.
Is that because wow64 is unstable in wine64?
Wow64's reason for existence is to run 32-bit Windows binaries on 64-bit
Windows/Wine and it works pretty well for most applications.
__Martin
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