Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:11:00 +0000 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: Sascha Folie <sascha.folie@safo.at> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does wine64 actually work? Message-ID: <VI1PR02MB1200E068613CBC159EB6008CF63D0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <20171205214346.b8956c02473afecd3f0c82fb@safo.at> References: <VI1PR02MB1200072CBD52A162083C9635F63D0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20171205203246.e1a071f3c3e4f42bada7631c@safo.at> <VI1PR02MB12000D6FF5C5E0E1310D7121F63D0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20171205214346.b8956c02473afecd3f0c82fb@safo.at>
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On 12/06/17 02:13, Sascha Folie wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:09:03 +0000 > Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/06/17 01:02, Sascha Folie wrote: >>> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:01:37 +0000 >>> Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On a FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 box, I am writing some documentation about Wine. >>>> >>>> I have been using wine32 for quite a while now, and it works remarkably >>>> well. wine64 on the contrary seems to be a minefield. >>>> >>>> I deleted my ~/.wine (which has 32-bit-stuff), installed the wine pkg >>>> (which is 64-bit), and tried running a few binaries (notepad.exe and >>>> mspaint.exe) under wine64 from Win 7 as well 10. >>>> >>>> All I could get was trash (or nothing at all). >>>> >>>> Is there anyone on this list who has had success running 7/10 binaries >>>> under wine64 ? >>>> >>>> The problem seems to be not just with FreeBSD. Linux vm also produces >>>> trash with 64-bit Windows binaries. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thanks & Regards, >>>> Manish Jain >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running Factorio[1] on FreeBSD 11.1 amd64 on wine-staging-2.21 >>> without problems. >>> >>> [1] https://www.factorio.com/ >>> >>> Regards, >>> Sascha >> >> I removed wine and installed wine-staging (v2.17), and then I tried >> running notepad.exe from Win 7 under wine64. I get: >> >> err:winedevice:ServiceMain Failed to load L"win32k.sys" >> >> No notepad window. Does anyone have any tips for resolving this problem? >> >> Tx >> Manish Jain > > I get the same error from a Win10 copy of notepad.exe. Seems like it > isn't a pure 64bit application. > > wine/wine-devel/wine-staging on FreeBSD amd64 only support 64bit and > can't run 32bit software at all. > > Regards, > Sascha Thanks for replying, Sascha. Can you please tell me one or two 64-bit binaries from w7/w10 that would work under FreeBSD wine ? I was thinking notepad would be easiest, but it looks like things are not so cool. Thanks & Regards, Manish Jain
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