Does wine64 actually work?

[Sascha Folie]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:09:03 +0000
Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/17 01:02, Sascha Folie wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:01:37 +0000
> > Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On a FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 box, I am writing some documentation about Wine.
> >>
> >> I have been using wine32 for quite a while now, and it works remarkably
> >> well. wine64 on the contrary seems to be a minefield.
> >>
> >> I deleted my ~/.wine (which has 32-bit-stuff), installed the wine pkg
> >> (which is 64-bit), and tried running a few binaries (notepad.exe and
> >> mspaint.exe) under wine64 from Win 7 as well 10.
> >>
> >> All I could get was trash (or nothing at all).
> >>
> >> Is there anyone on this list who has had success running 7/10 binaries
> >> under wine64 ?
> >>
> >> The problem seems to be not just with FreeBSD. Linux vm also produces
> >> trash with 64-bit Windows binaries.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Thanks & Regards,
> >> Manish Jain
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running Factorio[1] on FreeBSD 11.1 amd64 on wine-staging-2.21
> > without problems.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.factorio.com/
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Sascha
> 
> I removed wine and installed wine-staging (v2.17), and then I tried 
> running notepad.exe from Win 7 under wine64. I get:
> 
> err:winedevice:ServiceMain Failed to load L"win32k.sys"
> 
> No notepad window. Does anyone have any tips for resolving this problem?
> 
> Tx
> Manish Jain

I get the same error from a Win10 copy of notepad.exe. Seems like it
isn't a pure 64bit application.

wine/wine-devel/wine-staging on FreeBSD amd64 only support 64bit and
can't run 32bit software at all.

Regards,
Sascha