[Wine] Program fails to start

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 4 13:51:50 CST 2011


On 2/4/11 12:26 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
> When I try to start Mathematica in wine the blue screen comes up for a 
> few seconds and then I am dropped back to my KDE Desktop. Wine works 
> fine with AutoCad R14. I am running an i5-750 Intel processor with 
> Debian Linux. I get the following error message using "wine <path to 
> .exe file> > file 2>&1"  on the terminal (with no quotes) to start the 
> program:
>
> Trying to load PE image for unsupported architecture (AMD-64)
> err:process:create_process starting 64-bit process L"C:\\program 
> files\\wolfram research\\mathematica\\6.0\\mathematica.exe" not 
> supported in 32-bit wineprefix
> wine: Bad EXE format for C:\program files\wolfram 
> research\mathematica\6.0\mathematica.exe
>
> Can anyone tell me how to correct this.
You are trying to start a 64 bit Windows program in the 32 bit version 
of Wine.  You need to either build a 64 bit Wine program or get the 32 
bit version of Mathematica.

James McKenzie




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