Does wine64 actually work?

[Sascha Folie]

On 05.12.2017 22:11, Manish Jain wrote:
> On 12/06/17 02:13, Sascha Folie wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Thanks for replying, Sascha. Can you please tell me one or two 64-bit
> binaries from w7/w10 that would work under FreeBSD wine ?
> 
> I was thinking notepad would be easiest, but it looks like things are
> not so cool.

Hi,

I didn't test it yet but maybe putty.exe[1] (64bit) would be a good 
application.

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

Regards,
Sascha