ATi & Intel graphics

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:20:45PM -0400, Jim wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote:
> >> At some point fairly soon, I'll be rebuilding my computer, and I want
> >> three things.
> >>
> >> 64 Bit for more memory, maybe a bit of performance boost as well -
> >> it's mostly a multimedia machine
> >> decent/good 3D acceleration (better than a GeForce 7300GS - a few
> >> games in WINE in 1920x1080 - yes, believe it or not, the 7300GS
> >> doesn't do /bad/ on many of the games, but it certainly could be
> >> better).
> >> FreeBSD.
> >
> > You may want to rethink this. The emulators/wine port is i386-only:
> >
> > %grep -i arch /usr/ports/emulators/wine/Makefile
> > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386
> >
> 
> I was under the impression you could build it with -m32 set in CFLAGS
> and CXXFLAGS and it worked fine.

IIRC, all the libraries that WINE depends on also need to be available
in 32 bits. While not impossible nobody has spent any affort on this
because it's easier just to install i386.

Roland
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