Ubuntu 19.10 will be 64 bit only

Fabian Maurer dark.shadow4 at web.de
Fri Jun 21 11:18:35 CDT 2019


On Freitag, 21. Juni 2019 18:11:39 CEST Vincent Povirk (they/them) wrote:
> also demonstrate an important difference between Wine
> and Windows. On Windows, both of those libraries are implemented based
> on lower-level dll's and can work the same way as an application's
> 32-bit dll's. In Wine, that's true for gdiplus (and in fact, on
> current Wine gdiplus is being built as a PE dll), but windowscodecs
> needs to access native Linux libraries like libpng and libjpeg. So for
> Wine, it's not just a few low-level libraries that would need
> thunking. It's any dll that needs to use a Linux library.

On a sitenote, will macOS still support 32bit code at all? Because if not,
those would be quite different challenges. On Linux you can atleast still
switch between 32bit and 64bit code.

Regards,
Fabian Maurer





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