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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:13:27 +1300
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Does WINE work on FreeBSD amd64 ?
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 02:02:58AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
> The wiki page seems to say that wine is a 32-bit port, and 32-bit
> ports do not work well on amd64.  This would imply that 32-bit Windows
> programs would not run on 32-bit wine on a FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 system.
> Is this a correct interpretation?
> 
> Does anyone know if there are any plans to get 32 or 64 bit windows
> programs running under wine on FreeBSD amd64?
> 
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine

Well, if you look further down the page, you can see how to get a 32-bit
wine on an amd64 system. I followed the instructions, and I can get it
to play Starcraft and EVE-Online. You just got to make sure that the
32-bit executable is on your path.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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