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Date:      Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:20:04 -0600
From:      Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com>
To:        David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.36 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <4F0CC7A4.4010707@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201201101849.29845.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
References:  <201201092017.19776.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <4F0B2FC4.7090002@gmail.com> <201201101849.29845.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>

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On 01/10/12 10:49, David Naylor wrote:
> I wasn't aware of WoW64 (and how it will make my packages redundent :->).  I
> see there are two wiki pages:
>   + http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64
>   + http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64ForPackagers
>
> The latter makes this statement "Wine 64bit works at the moment only on
> Linux." which would indicate that, at this stage, FreeBSD is precluded.  That,
> however, is just my speculation.
>
> To answer your question directly, I have put no thought or effort into wine64.

There is still a need for the 32bit wine, as the wow64 build will ONLY 
run 64bit windows apps, so for the majority of applications and games, 
we'll still need the 32bit wine.

-- 
Chuck Burns
The Southern Libertarian
http://www.thesouthernlibertarian.com/



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