Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:14:32 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, Nick Lozinsky <ccnp.bsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: amd64 and wine Message-ID: <200502042214.32845.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <ae23a1980502040351130f91ff@mail.gmail.com> References: <ae23a1980502040351130f91ff@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 04 February 2005 03:51 am, Nick Lozinsky wrote: > Hello: > > Running FreeBSD5.3-STABLE on AMD64 3200+; I've attempted to `make > install' wine from the ports tree, and surprisingle enough, it is > only able to compile on I386 architectures. I looked through the > Makefile, and saw the i386 support, only. Does wine have any support > on amd64, or is it possible to compile on amd64 for backward 32-bit > compatibility? > > Thanks in advance. I'm sorry to say that no, it isn't likely in the short term. Wine depends on the USER_LDT features to use a custom x86 segmentation table within a user process. The amd64 kernel does not have this. I have been thinking about how to implement this in a lower-cost way than what currently happens on the i386 kernel though. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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