[Fwd: 64bit wine]

[Marcus Meissner]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:05:49AM +1100, Ben Klein wrote:
> 2009/11/11 Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com>:
> > For fedora it will not be possible to do a special 32bit compile on the x86_64
> > arch.
> 
> Wait ... no gcc -m32 on Fedora x86_64?
> 
> > Hence the only way is to have the default x86_32 version and a x86_64
> > version to be parallel installable. While it may be possible to use a different
> > WINEPREFIX for the x86_64 version (which would have been my short term
> > solution) it is not desirable for the users.
> 
> Until WIne's WoW64 implementation works (which from what you said
> before may be never), users will have to put up with separated 64bit
> and 32bit Windows apps. The best solution is to use a separate
> WINEPREFIX.
> 
> Note that they would have the same issues if they were running Windows natively.

On Wineconf we discussed how a mixed 64/32 wine will work.

Largest part currently missing is the 64<->32 bit crosscall and doing
32/64 bit shared wineprefixes.

So it is not yet ready to be setup and for regular users a 32bit only
wine should be provided.

Ciao, Marcus