[Wine] Re: file sizes greater than 4GB

Kari Hurtta hurtta+gmane at siilo.fmi.fi
Sat Jun 24 08:44:59 CDT 2006


Duane Clark <dclark at akamail.com> writes in gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user:

> John wrote:
> > I have a large VS 6.0 C++ program and I'm running it under WINE under
> > Redhat Linux.
> > Everything works fine, but it doesn't handle files sizes greater than
> > 4gb like it can running directly under Windows XP.
> > I've tweaked everything that I can find that deals with filesizes.
> > Is there a problem with WINE itself handling very large file sizes?
> 
> You probably want to ask on wine-devel. That is a bit outside the
> scope of the usual wine-users questions.

On 32 bit linuxes if program are assumed to use files bigger
that 2^31 bytes, it may require that programs must be compiles
with some special options. Perhaps _LARGEFILE_SOURCE

This changes some datatypes and system calls used.

(Or perhaps that is defined by default. )






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