[Wine] 64-bit chess engines and wine 1.2

[James McKenzie]

MaxM wrote:
> vitamin wrote:
>   
>> If it's not available for your distro - compile yourself.
>>     
>
> Thanks,
> checked the wiki and got
>
> - compile gcc 4.5.1 from source
> - install build prerequisites
> - build 64-bit wine from source
> - build a shared WoW64 setup
>
> Sounds pretty easy to me [Shocked] that's wine 1.2 64-bit feature?
>
> Should better change my distro ... if there is any with wine 64-bit support out-of-the-box? Would be great for chess.
>   
I'll vote against that.  I have an ANCIENT 32 bit system and I don't 
want to hunt around for 32 bit applications.  Also, there are very few 
Windows64 bit applications that exist in and of themselves.

Yes, you might have to build Wine64 from source as described in a 
different reply.

Jame McKenzie