From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 16:35:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46F4106566C for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:35:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@lispworks.com) Received: from lwfs1-cam.cam.lispworks.com (mail.lispworks.com [193.34.186.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0F38FC16 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from higson.cam.lispworks.com (higson [192.168.1.7]) by lwfs1-cam.cam.lispworks.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q0BGOMBv091571; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:24:22 GMT (envelope-from martin@lispworks.com) Received: from higson.cam.lispworks.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by higson.cam.lispworks.com (8.14.4) id q0BGOMxs030096; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:24:22 GMT Received: (from martin@localhost) by higson.cam.lispworks.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q0BGOLlk030092; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:24:21 GMT Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:24:21 GMT Message-Id: <201201111624.q0BGOLlk030092@higson.cam.lispworks.com> From: Martin Simmons To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <4F0CC7A4.4010707@gmail.com> (message from Chuck Burns on Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:20:04 -0600) References: <201201092017.19776.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <4F0B2FC4.7090002@gmail.com> <201201101849.29845.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <4F0CC7A4.4010707@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.36 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:35:24 -0000 >>>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:20:04 -0600, Chuck Burns said: > > 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. Is that because wow64 is unstable in wine64? Wow64's reason for existence is to run 32-bit Windows binaries on 64-bit Windows/Wine and it works pretty well for most applications. __Martin