[Wine] Re: FC4 X64 Wine RPMS ^_^

[Geoff Streeter]

At 2005-11-28 15:05 -0500, Adam Gibson wrote:
>Mike Hearn wrote:
>>On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:11:09 -0500, Adam Gibson wrote:
>>
>>>Is it capable of loading 32bit native dlls?
>>
>>Right ... I'm not sure a "native" amd64 build makes any sense, virtually
>>all Windows software is 32 bit. The regular RPMs should work fine.
>
>The regular i686 RPMS work just fine for me on x86_64 FC4.
>
>Assuming 64bit processors from Intel and AMD become the norm years from 
>now, I wonder if someone will find a solution that would allow wine(and 
>mplayer) compiled for x86_64 to load native 32bit dlls.  It would be a 
>shame 5 years from now to need to keep around 32bit libraries just for 
>running wine :).

A genuine windows 64 bit application can't load 32 bit dlls. All the dlls 
have to be recompiled to 64 bit. Also a genuine XP64 can't run 16 bit 
applications. This doesn't really cause problems for the applications 
themselves - most are now 32 bit. However, a lot of installers are still 
built as 16 bit applications.

What are the prospects for 64 bit wine? Alternatively, what are the 
prospects for 64 bit winelib? I have a 64 bit application that I would 
dearly like to port to AIX/Solaris/Linux. Currently, I can't port the GUI.

Geoff Streeter