Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:37:03 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine on amd64 Message-ID: <539c60b90704111037x12b36b0re65a1ec1fc1dcaeb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070410190114.GA72575@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <539c60b90704090937m5b6a2784l2ebfd97871a6b5a3@mail.gmail.com> <20070409172850.GA32720@xor.obsecurity.org> <200704101442.37535.tijl@ulyssis.org> <20070410190114.GA72575@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 4/10/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:42:35PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > On Monday 09 April 2007 19:28:50 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > > > Why does the wine port complain that it will not build on my > > > > 6.2/amd64 machine? A quick search around winehq.com seems to > > > > indicate that the linux (kubuntu, debian) guys compile wine on > > > > their 64-bit platforms??? And you know how we *hate* to let them > > > > think they have something we bsd-ites do not ;) > > > > > > Extra patches, I guess. Why not look into it and see what needs to > > > be added to our port? > > > > Wine runs win32 programs. It needs to be built as a 32bit program > > linked with 32bit libraries. The ports/package system can't handle > > 32bit code on amd64. > > Well it can, you just need to also have 32-bit versions of all the > other ports too. It is true that no-one has really worked on this, > but it's not technically difficult. > > Kris > > Is there already a means for building a particular port as 32 bits on a 64-bit machine? It seems that the infrastructure for having multiple versions of a particular port installed is already there. I know 6.2-64already has some 32-bit compatilibity infrastructure of some sort. As you say, it certainly doesn't seem beyond the realm of technical possibility. Since all my machines (even my crappy $400usd laptop) all have amd64 processors, why should I be locked into installing the x86 version just to run my CAD packages on wine? The qemu option sounds easy enough, but I moved to fbsd so I could ditch MS's unethical business practices and bugs - don't like the thought of installing it again on my pristine bsd server ;) Steve
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