Big ugly build changes might be needed for Debian/Ubuntu

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Sun May 22 08:26:45 CDT 2011


On 5/21/11 11:51 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 05:57:40PM -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>> On 5/19/11 1:51 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>>> It is trivial. You basically build wine twice, once in the 32bit
>>> environment and once inthe 64bit one.
>>>
>> Maybe Wine can look into some sort of merge process to build both
>> and at runtime select one or the other?  I don't know if this is
>> possible, I'm just 'throwing the idea out there'.
> Not sure what you mean.
>
> If you install 64 bit wine + 32bit stuff I listed, you will have
> a 64+32 bit capable wine setup.
>
That was the answer I was looking for.  Thank you, Marcus. The ability 
is already there.  So, if I install 64 bit wine on a 64 bit machine it 
should work something like what Windows does now, one directory 
(wineprefix) for 64 bitness and one directory (wineprefix) for 32 bitness.

James McKenzie



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