From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun May 14 23:23:11 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F3AD6D226 for ; Sun, 14 May 2017 23:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com", Issuer "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A596115 for ; Sun, 14 May 2017 23:23:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from [74.134.208.22] ([74.134.208.22:61846] helo=localhost) by dnvrco-omsmta02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 5E/31-29375-7D6E8195; Sun, 14 May 2017 23:23:04 +0000 Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 23:23:05 +0000 Message-ID: <5E.31.29375.7D6E8195@dnvrco-omsmta02> From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org CC: gerald@freebsd.org, dbn@freebsd.org Subject: Which wine do I need? X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.7:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 23:23:11 -0000 I see several different wine ports and would like to know which I need for amd64 and which I need for an i386 installation. from David Naylor: > On Saturday, 13 May 2017 08:16:55 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I see several different wine ports and would like to know which I need for > > amd64 and which I need for an i386 installation. > > I don't really want i386-wine as such, since I would install wine on i386 > > and could then mount this partition at /compat/i386 to run from amd64, > > while retaining the ability to run from straight i386. > This is effectively what i386-wine does: it bundles the required 32-bit > libraries from a i386 host/environment and packages them such that they can > run on an amd64 machine. > > Am I correct that I would build wine (or wine-devel) on i386 and then > > install wine or wine-devel on amd64? > Correct, you should use the same port for both i386 and amd64, however if you > are running Windows programs from /compat/i386 then there is no need to > install wine on the amd64 host (unless you want to run 64-bit programs). > > Am I better off doing this on FreeBSD 11-STABLE or on 12-HEAD? > Normally CURRENT doesn't cause issues with wine, however STABLE will more, > well, more stable. I wouldn't base the decision of CURRENT/STABLE on whats > best for Wine. We do, however, need more people to test CURRENT. My thought for building FreeBSD 11-STABLE for i386 is being better able to run wine from amd64, either HEAD or STABLE. I think there might be problems using wine on i386 HEAD from 11-STABLE amd64? Tom