Gecko64 status

[Marcus Meissner]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:38:39AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hi Jacek,
> 
> 2010/6/5 Jacek Caban <jacek at codeweavers.com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to share with you progress on gecko64. First of all, I think that
> > it was never said in public, although I've been asked about it: there won't
> > be gecko64 for 1.2 release. I think we will have Gecko release in the second
> > half of this year it will support 64-bit, but it's not yet clear when
> > exactly. We may try to do it near the next Firefox release, but time will
> > show how it will work.
> >
> > However, it doesn't mean that nothing is going on around Wine Gecko. I've
> > recently switched to mingw-w64 for 32-bit builds. I've very pleased with it.
> > They are far better in co-operation, don't have senseless politics like
> > mingw and their quality of headers and libraries is far better. We won't
> > need to maintain fixes to build envinonment anymore. (I've been even talking
> > about better co-operation between our projects, but that's OT here and I
> > will report progress when there will be more to say). We're much nearer to
> > allow packagers to build their own Gecko now.
> >
> > Back to gecko64, I've completed the first step. I have a working 64-bit
> > Firefox crosscompiled with mingw-w64. See:
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570342
> > for details. It starts and runs on Windows. Now I wait for patches to be
> > committed to Mozilla. It may take awhile :/ Before we may think about
> > support for gecko64 in MSHTML, we have to fix its issues in Wine.  Firefox
> > is a good Gecko test and it needs to be fixed first. Unfortunately it
> > currently doesn't even start. I've put a build on server in case anyone
> > would like to try it:
> > http://gerwazy.lo3.wroc.pl/~jcaban/wine/firefox-mingw-w64.tar.bz2
> > Volunteers on working on Wine side are very welcomed. There are also some
> > other tests from Mozilla code. Note that before fixing any more
> > sophisticated bug, it's worth to make sure on Windows, that the bug is in
> > Wine, not in the build. All I verified is that Firefox should start and
> > basic functionality works (and doesn't work on Wine).
> 
> I cannot find it the reference for it at the moment, but I remember
> that by default the stack is in memory < 4gb on 64-bits too, unless
> you did something. I wish I could remember how you could override the
> behavior, but this could be why it won't run in wine, but will in
> windows.
> 
> For a stack variable:
> 
> Wine64:
> &a = 0x7F9E9381FCDC
> Win64:
> &a = 0x22FE7C
> win64_32:
> &a = 0x28FF44

Is this really an issue with the above Firefox?

I get a assertion in font handling on running here.

Ciao, Marcus