From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Dec 6 19:03:46 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E03DE897E2; Wed, 6 Dec 2017 19:03:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sascha.folie@safo.at) Received: from mx1.safo.at (mx1.safo.at [85.126.218.75]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.safo.at", Issuer "ca1.safo.at" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A80B47EDFB; Wed, 6 Dec 2017 19:03:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sascha.folie@safo.at) Received: from mail.safo.at (mail.safo.at [10.10.1.27]) by mx1.safo.at (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id 3ff9530a (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO); Wed, 6 Dec 2017 20:03:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.safo.at (10.10.1.22 [10.10.1.22]) by mail.safo.at (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id b30cf553 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Wed, 6 Dec 2017 20:03:39 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 20:03:39 +0100 From: Sascha Folie To: Manish Jain Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does wine64 actually work? In-Reply-To: References: <20171205203246.e1a071f3c3e4f42bada7631c@safo.at> <20171205214346.b8956c02473afecd3f0c82fb@safo.at> Message-ID: X-Sender: sascha.folie@safo.at User-Agent: safo Webmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 19:03:46 -0000 On 05.12.2017 22:11, Manish Jain wrote: > On 12/06/17 02:13, Sascha Folie wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:09:03 +0000 >> Manish Jain wrote: >>> On 12/06/17 01:02, Sascha Folie wrote: >>>> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:01:37 +0000 >>>> Manish Jain 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. Hi, I didn't test it yet but maybe putty.exe[1] (64bit) would be a good application. [1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html Regards, Sascha