Wine64 : Trying to load PE image for unsupported architecture (I386)

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Feb 11 16:34:06 CST 2009


Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+win at mega-nerd.com> writes:

> While I expected it to not work with my Win64 program I was a little
> surprised that when running a WIn32 program I got:
>
>     Trying to load PE image for unsupported architecture (I386)
>
> I realise that the Win64 stuff is experimental but I'm curions, in
> the longer term is it expected that one executable will be able to
> run both Win32 and Win64 executables?

Not really, you'll of course still need to build a full 32-bit version
of Wine, the 64-bit Wine will never be able to run 32-bit apps.  What
needs to be improved is that the 64-bit loader should be able to forward
automatically to the 32-bit one when encountering a 32-bit app.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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